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JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 16, Issue 1, Pages 471-479Publisher
AMER SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1166/jnn.2016.10661
Keywords
Graphitic Carbon Nitride; Methylene Blue; Photocatalysis; Cadmium Sulfide
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- National Natural Science Foundations of China [21106138]
- Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities [2011YXL062]
- Open fund of National Laboratory of Mineral Materials [09A003]
- College Student Research Innovation Program and Teaching Experimental Center of China University of Geosciences, Beijing
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A series of visible-light-induced CdS/mpg-C3N4 nanocomposites were fabricated vis the solvothermal method and characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) and photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy analysis. The results show that CdS nanoparticles are homogenously dispersed on the sheet of mesoporous g-C3N4. The CdS/mpg-C3N4 nanocomposites show much higher visible-light-driven photocatalytic activity than individual mpg-C3N4 and CdS for methylene blue (MB) and phenol degradation. The optimal CdS content with the highest photocatalytic activity is determined to be 40%, which is almost 6.4 and 1.6 times higher than that those of individual mpg-C3N4 and CdS for the degradation of MB, and 12.2 and 2.2 folds for the degradation of phenol. The enhancement in photocatalytic activity and stability should be assigned to the effective separation and transfer of photogenerated charges coming from the well-matched overlapping band-structure between mpg-C3N4 and CdS. Radical trap experiments show that both the holes and O-2 is approximately equal to are main oxidative species of CdS/mpg-C3N4 for MB degradation under visible light irradiation. Finally, the possible mechanism for the enhancement of the visible light performance is proposed.
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