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Cobalt-molybdenum-selenide nanoflowers for bifunctional visible light photocatalysis

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CHEMOSPHERE
卷 326, 期 -, 页码 -

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138436

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Cobalt; Molybdenum; Photocatalysis; Selenium; Water splitting

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The renewability and zero carbon emissions of hydrogen make it a promising clean energy resource. Photocatalytic water-splitting, despite its low efficiency, has been extensively researched for hydrogen production. In this study, bimetallic transition metal selenides were synthesized and evaluated for their photocatalytic water splitting efficiencies. Among the compounds tested, CMSc exhibited the highest hydrogen evolution rate and also showed great potential in degrading pollutants. Thus, CMSc can be identified as a highly efficient photocatalyst for both environmental and energy applications.
The renewability and zero carbon emissions of hydrogen make it a promising clean energy resource to meet future energy demands. Owing to its benefits, photocatalytic water-splitting has been extensively investigated for hydrogen production. However, the low efficiency poses a serious challenge to its implementation. Herein, we attempted to synthesize bimetallic transition metal selenides, namely Co/Mo/Se (CMS) photocatalysts, with varying atomic compositions (CMSa, CMSb, and CMSc) and investigated their photocatalytic water splitting efficiencies. The observed hydrogen evolution rates were as follows: 134.88 mu mol g-1 min- 1 for CoSe2, 145.11 mu mol g-1 min- 1 for MoSe2, 167.31 mu mol g-1 min- 1 for CMSa, 195.11 mu mol g-1 min- 1 for CMSb, and 203.68 mu mol g-1 min- 1 for CMSc. Hence, we deemed CMSc to be the most potent photocatalytic alternative among the compounds. CMSc was also tested for its efficiency towards degradation of triclosan (TCN), and results sub-stantiated that CMSc succeeded degrading 98% TCN while CMSa and b were able to degrade 80 and 90% TCN respectively-the attained efficiency being exponentially higher than CoSe2 and MoSe2 taken for comparative analysis in addition to complete degradation of the pollutants leaving no harmful intermediaries during the process. Thus, CMSc shall be identified as a highly potential photocatalyst with respect to both environmental and energy applications.

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