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Preparation of Mn-doped BiOBr microspheres for efficient visible-light-induced photocatalysis

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Mn-doped bismuth oxide bromide microspheres have been prepared by the hydrothermal method. The resultant composite microspheres exhibited higher photocatalytic activity under visible light irradiation, attributing to the improvement of the photo-absorption property and the separation efficiency of photogenerated electrons and holes. The holes and O2•− are the main active species in aqueous solution under visible light irradiation, rather than •OH.

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Acknowledgments

This work was financially supported by the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, the State Education Ministry (1001603-C), the “521 Talents Training Plan” in ZSTU, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51133006), and Public Technological Research Project of Zhejiang Province (2012C21098). Z. W. thanks the Innovative Program for Graduate Students of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University through Grant YCX12007.

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  1. Department of Materials Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, China

    Zhen Wei, Guohua Jiang, Xia Li, Xiaohong Wang & Wenxing Chen

  2. Key Laboratory of Advanced Textile Materials and Manufacturing Technology (ATMT), Ministry of Education, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, China

    Zhen Wei, Guohua Jiang, Xia Li, Xiaohong Wang & Wenxing Chen

  3. College of Material Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, 310036, China

    Liang Shen

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Wei, Z., Jiang, G., Shen, L. et al. Preparation of Mn-doped BiOBr microspheres for efficient visible-light-induced photocatalysis. MRS Communications 3, 145–149 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1557/mrc.2013.29

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