Bismuth vanadate hollow spheres: Bubble template synthesis and enhanced photocatalytic properties for photodegradation
Authors: Jingxue Sun, Gang Chen, Jingzhu Wu, Hongjun Dong, Guihong Xiong
Abstract:
Hollow sphere monoclinic scheelite BiVO4 (m-BiVO4) is simply synthesized via a simple hydrothermal method by using urea as guiding surfactant. The forming process is investigated to be the incorporation of bubble guiding, oriented attachment and Ostwald ripening. The heterostructured hollow spheres are built up oftruncated octahedrons which are also found to be feasible based on theoretical calculation. The preferred truncated octahedron consists of {0 4 0}, {0 1 1}, and {1 1 0} crystal planes with multiplicities of 2, 2, and 4, respectively. Besides urea, different kinds of organic additives (citric acid, Vitamin C and oleic acid) are also chosen for the synthesis of m-BiVO4 to clarify the role of urea. The photocatalytic activities with different morphologies are evaluated on the degradation of Rhodamine B. It is found out that the m-BiVO4 with hollow structure shows the optimalizing activity and the reaction rate constant reaches up to 0.035 min−1 without adding H2O2 as hydroxyl radicals provider. Except for activity, the as-prepared samples have high stability and durability, after four cycling runs of photodegradation of RhB, the photocatalytic ability of as-synthesized m-BiVO4 did not show any loss. The degradation of RhB is attributed to intrinsically strong photo-oxidation ability rather than photosensitization and the synthesized samples also shows efficient photocatalytic activity for the degradation of 2-propanol. Meanwhile, the reasons for the superior activity are also carefully investigated.
Keywords:
Hollow spheres
Bubble template
Photodegradation
Formation mechanism
Published in: Applied Catalysis B: Environmental (Volumes 132–133, Pages 1-552, 27 March 2013)
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN Information: 0926-3373
Bismuth vanadate hollow spheres: Bubble template synthesis and enhanced photocatalytic properties for photodegradation
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