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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 16, 期 44, 页码 24519-24526出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4cp03795b
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- Natural Science Foundation of China [11474199, 11074165]
Monodispersed monoclinic BiVO4 nanorods grown along the [010] direction were prepared using a one-step low temperature hydrothermal method in the presence of the low-cost, nontoxic sodium oleate serving as a chelating agent. The BiVO4 nanorods with diameters of 15-20 nm possess a huge specific surface area as large as 28.2 m(2) g(-1), which can endow them with high photocatalytic activity and strong adsorption of reactants. Meanwhile, the specific [010] growth direction is capable of facilitating efficient electron-hole separation by accumulating electrons on {010} facets. Thus, the highly efficient photocatalytic activity of the as-prepared BiVO4 nanorods under visible light, which far surpasses that of commercial P25, is demonstrated by the degradation of rhodamine B and phenol. Plentiful V4+ species, which can create oxygen vacancies, is detected implying that the as-obtained nanorods are self-doped BiVO4. Significantly, 61% of rhodamine B is adsorbed by the BiVO4 nanorods before irradiation owing to the appearance of plentiful O2- and OH- species on the surface adsorbed by oxygen vacancies. More excitingly, the excellent visible-light-driven photocatalytic activity of the as-obtained BiVO4 nanorods can be further elevated to an unprecedented level, roughly doubled, after applying a low temperature heat treatment process at 230 degrees C for 2 h and this improvement could primarily be ascribed to their optimized charge-carrier transport characteristics resulting from elevated crystallinity and decreased V4+ species.
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