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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 6, Issue 103, Pages 101105-101114Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c6ra22669h
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- Materials and environment Laboratory (Morocco-Agadir)
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Bismuth tungstate and 5% Lu-doped bismuth tungstate photocatalysts were synthesized by coprecipitation method and characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), UV-Vis diffuse reflectance spectra (DRS), and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface area. The effect of lutetium doping on electronic structure was investigated using density functional theory calculations (DFT). The change of morphological and optical band gap was conditioned by lutetium doping. Under visible light irradiation, the as-prepared sheet-like Lu-Bi2WO6 sample exhibits the highest visible-light-responsive photocatalytic performance than pure Bi2WO6 for the degradation of Methylene Blue (MB). The photocatalytic mechanism was explained on the basis of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), photoluminescence (PL) spectra, active trapping measurements and optoelectronic properties.
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