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CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
Volume 41, Issue 3, Pages 4340-4347Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2014.11.123
Keywords
BiVO4; EDTA; Hydrothermal method; Perforated hollow morphology; Photocatalyst
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Monoclinic scheelite type BiVO4 samples with high photocatalytic activity were successfully synthesized by a hydrothermal method in the presence of ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA). Monoclinic scheelite structure was obtained at a hydrothermal temperature as low as 140 degrees C, which was much lower than 210 degrees C in the absence of EDTA. Experimental results indicate that the morphology of the BiVO4 changed from sphere, polygon with hole, perforated hollow polygon, to particle with fragment with the increase of EDTA amount, and the particle size also decreased. On the conditions of the hydrothermal temperature of 170 degrees C, pH of 7.0, hydrothermal time of 4 h and the amount of EDTA of 3.0 mmol, BiVO4 samples with perforated hollow polygon structure and low band gap of 2.48 eV were obtained. Catalyzed by the perforated hollow polygon BiVO4, the discoloration rate of methylene blue (MB) reached 90.84% in simulated sunlight. The high discoloration rate of BiVO4 was successfully explained by the experiment results of crystal structure, morphology, UV-vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy and band gap. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd and Techna Group S.r.l. All rights reserved.
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