Journal
ACS SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING
Volume 5, Issue 1, Pages 1062-1072Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.6b02351
Keywords
plasmonic Bi metal; g-C3N4; Bi2WO6 microspheres; SPR effect; charge separation
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- National Program for Support of Top-Notch Young Professionals of China
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51579096, 51222805, 51521006, 51679084, 51508175]
- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University from the Ministry of Education of China [NCET-11-0129]
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A low-cost semiconductor-based photocatalyst using visible light energy has attracted increasing interest for energy generation and environmental remediation. Herein, plasmonic Bi metal was deposited in situ in g-C3N4@Bi2WO6 microspheres via a hydrothermal method. As an electron-conduction bridge, metallic Bi was inserted as the interlayer between gC(3)N(4) and the surface of Bi2WO6 microspheres to enhance visible light absorption due to the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) effect and facilitate efficient electron-carrier separation. Different characterization techniques, including XRD, SEM, TEM, UV-vis, XPS, photoluminescence, and photocurrent generation, were employed to investigate the morphology and optical properties of the as-prepared samples. The results indicated that the g-C3N4(20%)@Bi@Bi2WO6 microsphere sample exhibited an extraordinary enhanced photocatalytic activity, higher than those of the g-C3N4, Bi2WO6, and g-C3N4(20%)@Bi2WO6 samples. It implies that the heterostructured combination of g-C3N4, metallic Bi, and Bi2WO6 microspheres provided synergistic photocatalytic activity via an efficient electron transfer process. On the basis of the results, a possible photocatalytic mechanism of the as-prepared samples was proposed. The present study demonstrated the feasibility of utilizing low-cost metallic Bi as a substitute for noble metals to design a doped photocatalysis composite with enhanced photocatalytic performance.
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