Issue 24, 2018

Ultrasound-assisted synthesis of a feathery-shaped BiOCl with abundant oxygen vacancies and efficient visible-light photoactivity

Abstract

A feathery-shaped form of BiOCl (BOC-M) with a high concentration of oxygen vacancies was successfully synthesized using the ultrasound method at room temperature with maltitol as a surfactant. BOC-M was found to exhibit excellent visible-light photocatalytic activities for the degradations of the antibiotic tetracycline hydrochloride (TC-HCl) and rhodamine B (RhB), whose reaction rate was found to be approximately 3 times higher than that using bulk BiOCl (BOC). The enhanced visible photocatalytic performance of BOC-M was ascribed to its high concentration of oxygen vacancies, large specific surface area and strong hydrophilicity. Moreover, the photocatalytic reaction mechanism was further revealed by performing radical- and hole-trapping experiments and electron spin resonance spectroscopy (ESR). The results suggested that ˙O2 was the main active species during the degradation process. This work provided a facile and scalable method to synthesize maltitol-assisted Bi-based photocatalysts and shed light on the highly efficient catalysis offered by BiOCl resulting from the oxygen vacancies produced by the new synthetic route we developed.

Graphical abstract: Ultrasound-assisted synthesis of a feathery-shaped BiOCl with abundant oxygen vacancies and efficient visible-light photoactivity

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
22 Aug 2018
Accepted
29 Oct 2018
First published
30 Oct 2018

New J. Chem., 2018,42, 19571-19577

Ultrasound-assisted synthesis of a feathery-shaped BiOCl with abundant oxygen vacancies and efficient visible-light photoactivity

J. Sun, H. Xu, D. Li, Z. Zou, Q. Wu, G. Liu, J. Yang, L. Sun and D. Xia, New J. Chem., 2018, 42, 19571 DOI: 10.1039/C8NJ04165B

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