- Title
- Controlled synthesis of BiVO₄ submicrospheres and their photocatalytic properties
- Creator
- Gao, Xingxing; Xu, Hongbo; Yu, Jianglong; Wang, Jian
- Relation
- Chemistry Letters Vol. 44, Issue 8, p. 1098-1100
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1246/cl.150369
- Publisher
- Chemical Society of Japan
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- An ethylene glycol/water (EG/H₂O) system has been designed to synthesize monoclinic BiVO₄ submicrospheres through a mild dodecylamine-assisted hydrothermal method. The results show that the crystal phase of the synthesized product can be tuned by changing the volume ratio of EG/H₂O. Moreover, the effects of dodecylamine on the morphologies of the obtained products were also discussed. The photocatalytic activities of samples were evaluated on the degradation of methylene blue (MB) under visible-light irradiation (λ > 400 nm). The results indicated that BiVO₄ submicrospheres exhibited better photocatalytic activities than peanut-shaped BiVO₄.
- Subject
- EG/H₂0; BiVO₄; photocatalytic activities; methylene blue
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1334658
- Identifier
- uon:27345
- Identifier
- ISSN:0366-7022
- Language
- eng
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