Concave trisoctahedral Ag3PO4 microcrystals with high-index facets and enhanced photocatalytic properties

Zhengbo Jiao; Yan Zhang; Hongchao Yu; Gongxuan Lu; Jinhua Ye; Yingpu Bi

doi:10.1039/C2CC37324F

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Concave trisoctahedral Ag₃PO₄ microcrystals with high-index facets and enhanced photocatalytic properties†

Zhengbo Jiao,^a Yan Zhang,^a Hongchao Yu,^a Gongxuan Lu,^a Jinhua Ye^b and Yingpu Bi*^a

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^a State Key Laboratory for Oxo Synthesis & Selective Oxidation, and National Engineering Research Center for Fine Petrochemical Intermediates, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, Lanzhou 730000, China
E-mail: yingpubi@licp.cas.cn

^b International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), and Research Unit for Environmental Remediation Materials, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan

Abstract

Herein, we demonstrate for the first time the fabrication of concave trisoctahedral Ag₃PO₄ microcrystals enclosed by {221} and {332} facets based on the heteroepitaxial growth procedure, which exhibit much higher photocatalytic activities than cubic Ag₃PO₄ and commercial N-doped TiO₂.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC37324F
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 08 Oct 2012
Accepted: 26 Nov 2012
First published: 26 Nov 2012

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Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 636-638

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Concave trisoctahedral Ag₃PO₄ microcrystals with high-index facets and enhanced photocatalytic properties

Z. Jiao, Y. Zhang, H. Yu, G. Lu, J. Ye and Y. Bi, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 636 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC37324F

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