- Title
- A novel heterostructure of BiOI nanosheets anchored onto MWCNTs with excellent visible-light photocatalytic activity
- Creator
- Li, Shijie; Hu, Shiwei; Xu, Kaibing; Jiang, Wei; Liu, Jianshe; Wang, Zhaohui
- Relation
- Nanomaterials Vol. 7, Issue 1, no. 22
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano7010022
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- eveloping efficient visible-light-driven (VLD) photocatalysts for environmental decontamination has drawn significant attention in recent years. Herein, we have reported a novel heterostructure of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) coated with BiOI nanosheets as an efficient VLD photocatalyst, which was prepared via a simple solvothermal method. The morphology and structure were characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), UV-Vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS), and specific surface area measurements. The results showed that BiOI nanosheets were well deposited on MWCNTs. The MWCNTs/BiOI composites exhibited remarkably enhanced photocatalytic activity for the degradation of rhodamine B (RhB), methyl orange (MO), and para-chlorophenol (4-CP) under visible-light, compared with pure BiOI. When the MWCNTs content is 3 wt %, the MWCNTs/BiOI composite (3%M-Bi) achieves the highest activity, which is even higher than that of a mechanical mixture (3 wt % MWCNTs + 97 wt % BiOI). The superior photocatalytic activity is predominantly due to the strong coupling interface between MWCNTs and BiOI, which significantly promotes the efficient electron-hole separation. The photo-induced holes (h+) and superoxide radicals (O2−) mainly contribute to the photocatalytic degradation of RhB over 3%M-Bi. Therefore, the MWCNTs/BiOI composite is expected to be an efficient VLD photocatalyst for environmental purification.
- Subject
- MWCNTs/BiOI; nanocomposites; photocatalysis; visible-light
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1346740
- Identifier
- uon:29921
- Identifier
- ISSN:2079-4991
- Rights
- This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (CC BY 4.0).
- Language
- eng
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