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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
Volume 49, Issue 40, Pages 14030-14045Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d0dt02318c
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21962006, 21707055, 21872030]
- Youth Key Project of Jiangxi Province Nature Science Foundation [20192ACBL21011]
- Jiangxi Province Natural Science Foundation [20181BAB213010]
- Guangdong Province Universities and Colleges Pearl River Scholar Funded Scheme
- Key Research Project of Natural Science of Guangdong Provincial Department of Education [2019KZDXM010]
- Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation [2019A1515011249]
- Program of Qingjiang Excellent Young Talents, JXUST [3401223429]
- Young Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province Education Office [GJJ180465]
- Open Fund of Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Petrochemical Pollution Process and Control [2018B030322017]
- Open Fund for Key Laboratory of Green Energy and Environmental Catalysis in Universities of Fujian Province, Ningde Normal University [FJ-GEEC201901]
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To effectively enhance the utilization of clean sunlight energy, harvesting a large percentage of near infrared (NIR) light is significant. One of the commonly used effective methods for modifying semiconductors is by co-doping upconversion materials on semiconductors to heighten the photocatalytic efficiency. In this work, Yb3+/Tm3+ co-doped InVO4 nanosheets were synthesized by a facile hydrothermal path, and the crystal phases, morphologies, surface chemical compositions, as well as optical properties were characterized. Yb3+/Tm3+ co-doped InVO4 revealed significantly enhanced photoactivity towards chromium(VI) reduction and methyl orange oxidation under visible or NIR light irradiation. Furthermore, 5YT-IV presented the highest electrocatalytic performance and photocatalytic production of H2O2 under visible light irradiation, requiring low overpotential and low Tafel slope (390 mV dec(-1)) for hydrogen evolution reaction than that of the bare InVO4 (731 mV dec(-1)), and as well improved the yield of photocatalytic H2O2 production by about 3.5 times. This was primarily ascribed to intensive light absorption resulting from the benign upconversion energy transfer of Yb3+/Tm3+ and the boosted charge separation caused by the intermediate energy states. Moreover, the presence of h(+) and O-center dot(2)- as the main oxidative species played a significant role during the photocatalytic oxidation process of methyl orange and electrons played a decisive role in Cr(VI) reduction. This study provides a promising platform for efficiently utilizing the visible-NIR energy of sunlight in the field of photocatalytic H2O2 production and for alleviating environmental pollution in future.
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