Journal
APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL
Volume 106, Issue 3-4, Pages 559-564Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2011.06.016
Keywords
Phenol oxidation; Mesoporous Bi2WO6; Photocatalysis; Electrochemical study
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [50972155, 50902144]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2010CB933503, 2007CB613305]
- Innovation Research of the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics
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Ordered mesoporous Bi2WO6 (M-Bi2WO6) with nanocrystalline walls was fabricated for the first time by a silica-templated nanocasting method with bismuth nitrate and phosphotungstic acid as precursors. The as-prepared mesoporous Bi2WO6 sample exhibited a much higher photocatalytic activity than the conventional hydrothermally synthesized nanoscale Bi2WO6 (HR-Bi2WO6) on the degradation of phenol which is quite toxic but widely used and slowly degradable in the environment. Almost 97% of the phenol molecules were degraded within 60 min along with the sharp decrease of total organic carbon (TOC) in 100 mL of phenol solution (20 mg/L) under visible-light irradiation. Compared with HR-Bi2WO6 sample, the M-Bi2WO6 sample exhibited a negative shift of conduction band edge potential and faster charge transfer property which helped to improve the photocatalytic performance. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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