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Ag-enhanced CeF3-O: highly enhanced photocatalytic performance under NIR light irradiation

Journal

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 29, Issue 56, Pages 85095-85102

Publisher

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-21808-4

Keywords

Photocatalytic; Tetracycline hydrochloride; Rhodamine B; Ag; Cocatalyst; NIR light

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [51872258]
  2. Innovation Fund of the Zhejiang Kechuang New Materials Research Institute [ZKN-20-Z03]

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Ag-enhanced CeF3-O nanoparticles showed improved photodegradation activity for HCl-TC and RhB under NIR light irradiation. The addition of Ag as a cocatalyst increased the efficiency and rate constant of photodegradation. Ag acted as a bridge, facilitating charge transfer and separation of photogenerated carries.
CeF3-O with intermediate band showed improved synergic photodegradation activity toward HCl-TC and RhB under NIR light irradiation when enhanced by Ag as a cocatalyst. Ag+ ions take electrons from the second transition in CeF3-O's intermediate band, which are then reduced to Ag as cocatalyst. The photodegradation efficiencies of HCl-TC by various Ag/CeF3-O nanoparticles in 180-min increase from 26.5 to 73.1%. The optimal Ag/CeF3-O-100 is about 2.76 times that of pure CeF3-O. Ag/CeF3-O-100 has an apparent rate constant of 4.5 x 10(-3) min(-1), which is 3.0 times that of pure CeF3-O. Similarly, Ag/CeF3-O-10 achieves a superior photodegradation efficiency of RhB at 96.7% under NIR light within 120 min. Its apparent rate constant of 27.7 x 10(-3) min(-1) is 12.0 times that of pure CeF3-O (2.3 x 10(-3) min(-1)). Further, the turnover frequencies of Ag/CeF3-O nanoparticles are greatly higher than that of the corresponding pure CeF3-O nanoparticles. Ag-enhanced CeF3-O has a unique metal-semiconductor interface where Ag acts as a bridge for facilitating charge transfer and the separation efficiency of photogenerated carries. The synergic effect between CeF3-O and Ag provides a practical technique for enhancing the wastewater treatment with NIR light irradiation.

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