Journal
MATERIALS LETTERS
Volume 201, Issue -, Pages 62-65Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2017.04.142
Keywords
Ag3PO4; g-C3N4/ZnIn2S4; Semiconductors; Composite materials; Tetracycline; Photodegradation
Funding
- Excellent Youth Foundation of Jiangsu Scientific Committee [BK20140011]
- Chinese-German Cooperation Research Project [GZ1091]
- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University [NCET-13-0835]
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The increasing environmental deterioration poses a severe threat to human health and ecosystems, and the photocatalytic degradation of environmental pollutions has gained intensive interest in recent years. In this study, we prepared a novel ternary Ag3PO4/g-C3N4/ZnIn2S4(ACZ) photocatalyst by a hydrothermal method and deposition-precipitation technique. The ACZ composites exhibited much higher photocatalytic activities for the degradation of tetracycline (TC) than the sum of g-C3N4, Znln(2)S(4), Ag3PO4/gC(3)N(4), Ag3PO4/Znln(2)S(4) or g-C3N4/Znln(2)S(4) under visible light irradiation (lambda > 420 nm) in the photocatalytic tests. Especially, when the content of Ag3PO4 reached 3 wt% (ACZ-3), the ACZ-3 displayed the highest photocatalytic activity, which can degrade 83% TC (20 mg/L) within 60 min. The improvement in photo catalytic performance of the ternary photocatalyst is mainly attributed to the extended absorption in the visible light region and the effective separation of photogenerated electron-hole pairs between the Ag3PO4 and g-C3N4/Znln(2)S(4). (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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