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Journal of Materials Science
Published in: Journal of Materials Science 12/2017

15-03-2017 | Original Paper

Novel visible-light-driven S-doped carbon dots/BiOI nanocomposites: improved photocatalytic activity and mechanism insight

Authors: Yajun Wang, Juan Chen, Quan Xu, Yan Li, Tie Fu, Guiyuan Jiang, Yuming Li, Zhen Zhao, Yuechang Wei

Published in: Journal of Materials Science | Issue 12/2017

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Abstract

Developing visible light-driven photocatalyst has been paid a lot of attentions due to the intention of utilizing the solar energy. In this present work, novel visible light-driven S-doped carbon dots (S-CDs)/BiOI composites were synthesized via a facile hydrothermal method and followed by a chemisorption. The S-doped carbon dots were applied in the photocatalytic reaction for the first time and show promising results. The S-CDs/BiOI composite was formed with S-CDs uniformly deposited on the surface of thin BiOI nanosheet. All S-CDs/BiOI composites exhibit higher photocatalytic degradation activities of methylene blue (MB) than pure BiOI, and the optimal modification proportion of S-CDs is 1%. And the S-CDs/BiOI composite also exhibits much higher photocatalytic activities than undoped CDs/BiOI composite. The improved photocatalytic performance of S-CDs/BiOI is attributed to the interfacial transfer of electrons from BiOI to S-CDs, resulting in a more effective charge separation and enhanced photocatalytic activity. For the photocatalytic degradation of MB, the active species trapping experiments indicate that the superoxide radical is the main active species of the S-CDs/BiOI composite. Our results suggest that sulfur doping can further improve the performance of CDs and CDs modification can effectively enhance the photocatalytic activity.
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Metadata
Title
Novel visible-light-driven S-doped carbon dots/BiOI nanocomposites: improved photocatalytic activity and mechanism insight
Authors
Yajun Wang
Juan Chen
Quan Xu
Yan Li
Tie Fu
Guiyuan Jiang
Yuming Li
Zhen Zhao
Yuechang Wei
Publication date
15-03-2017
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Materials Science / Issue 12/2017
Print ISSN: 0022-2461
Electronic ISSN: 1573-4803
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-017-0965-1

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