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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bai, Yang
• Ye, Liqun
• Chen, Ting
• Wang, Li
• Shi, Xian
• Zhang, Xu
• Chen, Dan

Titel

Facet-Dependent Photocatalytic N2 Fixation of Bismuth-Rich Bi5O7I Nanosheets

Ist Teil von

• ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2016-10, Vol.8 (41), p.27661-27668

Ort / Verlag

American Chemical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Bismuth-rich bismuth oxyhalides (Bi–O–X; X = Cl, Br, I) display high photocatalytic reduction activity due to the promoting conduction band potential. In this work, two Bi5O7I nanosheets with different dominant facets were synthesized using either molecular precursor hydrolysis or calcination. Crystal structure characterizations, included X-ray diffraction patterns (XRD), field emission electron microscopy and fast Fourier transformation (FFT) images, showed that hydrolysis and calcination resulted in the dominant exposure of {100} and {001} facets, respectively. Photocatalytic data revealed that Bi5O7I–001 had a higher activity than Bi5O7I–100 for N2 fixation and dye degradation. Photoelectrochemical data revealed that Bi5O7I–001 had higher photoinduced carrier separation efficiency than Bi5O7I–100. The band structure analysis also used to explain the underlying photocatalytic mechanism based on the different conduction band position. This work presents the first report about the facet-dependent photocatalytic performance of bismuth-rich Bi–O–X photocatalysts.