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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 630, Issue -, Pages 430-442Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.10.015
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Metal-organic frameworks; Photocatalytic pollutants degradation; Conduction band flexibility; Electronic redistribution; Spin polarization
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Solar energy is the most promising option for mitigating the energy crisis in the future, and can be used in renewable and economical technologies such as water splitting and pollutants degradation. This study investigates the enhancement of photocatalytic performance through defect engineering and the regulation of the conduction band position. The experimental results demonstrate that the material with 5% defects exhibits superior photocatalytic activity.
Solar energy is becoming the most promising option to mitigate the energy crisis in the future and can be applied in renewable and economical technologies such as water splitting and pollutants degradation. The promotion of the electronic energetic level is considered an efficient method to enhance the photo -catalytic performance of semiconductor materials for solar energy conversion. The highly energetic elec-trons exhibit a remarkable reduction ability by virtue of the electronic spin polarization, which is associated with the conduction band (CB) position. Thus, the regulation of the CB position due to the redistribution of electrons by means of defect engineering presents potential. Here, a series of titanium-based metal-organic frameworks (Ti-based MOFs) named MIL-125-m% containing different extents of defects are reported to enable photocatalytic activity under simulated sunlight and visible light illumination for remarkably enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution and pollutant degradation. The experimental results illustrated that MIL-125-5 % exhibited a superior photocatalytic hydrogen evolution rate (16507.27 lmol center dot g-1 center dot h-1), much higher than that of MIL-125-0 % (1.444 lmol center dot g-1 center dot h-1). The excellent photocatalytic performance was attributed to upshift of d-band center, which strengthened the adsorp-tion of H*, facilitating the H2 evolution reaction. In addition, the degradation rate of MIL-125-5 % was up to twice the original rate, for the highly energetic electrons induced by the CB flexibility alleviated the
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