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Facile Synthesis of Uniform Mesoporous Nb2O5 Micro-Flowers for Enhancing Photodegradation of Methyl Orange

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卷 14, 期 14, 页码 -

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DOI: 10.3390/ma14143783

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photocatalysis; Nb2O5 micro-flowers; hydrothermal synthesis; methyl orange

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  1. Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [LQ15E080007]
  2. Jinhua Science and Technology Plan Project [2017-3-001, 2017-4-001, 2018-3-002, 2019-4-168]

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In this study, a Nb2O5 photocatalyst with uniform micro-flower structure was successfully synthesized for the degradation of methyl orange (MO) under UV irradiation. The Nb2O5 micro-flowers showed excellent catalytic activity with a high degradation rate of MO, attributed to its 3D porous structure with abundant catalytic active sites.
The removal of organic pollutants using green environmental photocatalytic degradation techniques urgently need high-performance catalysts. In this work, a facile one-step hydrothermal technique has been successfully applied to synthesize a Nb2O5 photocatalyst with uniform micro-flower structure for the degradation of methyl orange (MO) under UV irradiation. These nanocatalysts are characterized by transmission and scanning electron microscopies (TEM and SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) method, and UV-Vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS). It is found that the prepared Nb2O5 micro-flowers presents a good crystal phases and consist of 3D hierarchical nanosheets with 400-500 nm in diameter. The surface area is as large as 48.6 m(2) g(-1). Importantly, the Nb2O5 micro-flowers exhibit superior catalytic activity up to 99.9% for the photodegradation of MO within 20 mins, which is about 60-fold and 4-fold larger than that of without catalysts (W/O) and commercial TiO2 (P25) sample, respectively. This excellent performance may be attributed to 3D porous structure with abundant catalytic active sites.

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