Jinfeng Zhang

Z-机制磷酸银/钨酸铋复合物的构建及其可见光催化降解有机污染物

Abstract Ag3PO4 has good potential for use in photocatalytic degradation of organic contaminants. However, the activity and stability of Ag3PO4 is hard to sustain because of photocorrosion and the positive potential of the conduction band of Ag3PO4. In this study, A composite consisting of Bi2WO6 nanosheets and Ag3PO4 was developed to curb recombination of charge carriers and enhance the activity and stability of the catalyst. Formation of a Ag3PO4/Bi2WO6 composite was confirmed using X-ray diffraction, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Photoluminescence spectroscopy provided convincing evidence that compositing Bi2WO6 with Ag3PO4 effectively reduced photocorrosion of Ag3PO4. The Ag3PO4/Bi2WO6 composite gave a high photocatalytic performance in photodegradation of methylene blue. A degradation rate of 0.61 min−1 was achieved; this is 1.3 and 6.0 times higher than those achieved using Ag3PO4 (0.47 min−1) and Bi2WO6 (0.10 min−1), respectively. Reactive species trapping experiments using the Ag3PO4/Bi2WO6 composite showed that holes, ·OH, and ·O2− all played specific roles in the photodegradation process. The photocatalytic mechanism was investigated and a Z-scheme was proposed as a plausible mechanism.

Construction of organic–inorganic cadmium sulfide/diethylenetriamine hybrids for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen production

The design and control of effective, sustainable, cheap, and reusable photocatalysts are crucial to the development of solar energy conversion to hydrogen (H2) for solving environmental problems. The cadmium sulfide/diethylenetriamine (CdS/DETA) hybrid in a single crystalline structure was achieved by a solvothermal approach. The organic-inorganic CdS/DETA hybrid shows high performance and satisfactory stability for H2 production under visible-light irradiation. The synergetic chemical coupling effect between CdS and DETA leads to a marked increase in the H2 generation rate and the apparent quantum yield. H2-production rate of CdS/DETA24 under visible light illumination are 31.7% and 8059.5μmolg-1h-1, respectively, which is 3.5 times more than CdS nanorods without DETA. Our findings may give a promising method to improve CdS for efficient electron-hole separation, electron transferring and anticorrosion in photocatalytic process, which reforms the conventional organic-inorganic hybrid system.