期刊
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
卷 6, 期 16, 页码 14423-14432出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/am503696b
关键词
nanomaterials; heterostructure; photocatalytic activity; band structure; carrier transport
资金
- Chongqing Municipal Education Commission of China [KJ1400607]
- NSFCQ [cstc2012jjB0006]
- SRFDP [20110191110034, 20120191120039]
- NSFC [11204388]
Photocatalytic degradation of organic contaminants is an important application area in solar energy utilization. To improve material photocatalytic properties, understanding their photocatalytic mechanism is indispensable. Here, the photocatalytic performance of ZnWO4 nanocrystals was systematicly investigated by the photo-degradation of tetraethylated rhodamine (RhB) under simulated sunlight irradiation, including the influence of morphology, AgO/ZnWO4 heterojunction and comparison with CoWO4 nanowires. The results show that the photocatalytic activity of ZnWO4 is higher than that of CoWO4, and the ZnWO4 nanorods exhibit better photocatalytic activity than that of ZnWO4 nanowires. In addition, the mechanism for the difference of the photocatalytic activity was also investigated by comparison of their photoluminescence and photocurrents. AgO nanopartides were assembled uniformly on the surface of ZnWO4 nanowires to form a heterojunction that exhibited enhanced photocatalytic activity under irradiation at the initial stage. We found that a good photocatalyst should not only have an active structure for electrons directly to transfer from the valence band to the conduction band without the help of phonons but also a special electronic configuration for the high mobility, to ensure more excited electrons and holes in a catalytic reaction.
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