A confined micro-reactor with a movable Fe_(3) O_(4) core and a mesoporous TiO_(2) shell for a photocatalytic Fenton-like degradation of bisphenol A

摘要

Photocatalysis and Fenton process are two primary and promising advanced oxidation processes to degrade organic pollutants.However,the practical applications of single photocatalysis and Fenton process are still limited.Introducing one of them into another to form a combined photocatalytic Fentonlike system has shown great potential but still faces challenges in designing a well-tailored catalyst.Herein,a confined photocatalytic Fenton-like micro-reactor catalyst with a movable Fe_(3) O_(4) core and a mesoporous TiO_(2) shell has been constructed via a successive Stober coating strategy,followed by an ultrasound assisted etching method.The resulting micro-reactor possesses well-defined yolk-shell structures with unifo rm mesopores(~4 nm),a large Brunauer-Emmett-Teller(BET) surface area(~166.7 m^(2)/g),a high pore volume(~0.56 cm^(3)/g) and a strong magnetization(~51 emu/g),as well as tunable reactor sizes(20-90 nm).When evaluated for degrading bisphenol A under solar light in the presence of peroxymo no sulfate,the micro-reactor exhibits a superior catalytic degradation perfo rmance with a high magnetic separation efficiency and an excellent recycle ability.The outstanding performance can be attributed to its unique textual structure,which leads to a great syne rgistic effect from the photocatalytic and Fenton-like process.This study gives an important insight into the design and synthesis of an advanced micro-reactor for a combined advanced oxidation processes(AOPs).