Carbonate doped Bi2MoO6 hierarchical nanostructure with enhanced transformation of active radicals for efficient photocatalytic removal of NO

摘要

Doping heteroatoms in photocatalyst is an effective strategy to signally enhance the photocatalytic activity. Herein, we have favorably fabricated the carbonate doped Bi2MoO6 via a facile one-pot solvothermal method, which was verified by structure and constituent characterization analysis. In addition, the NO removal efficiency of carbonate-intercalated Bi2MoO6 is similar to 34%, far-exceeding that of the pure Bi2MoO6 (similar to 13%), whilst exhibits a good stability and durability, owing to that the dopants could modulate the electron states of the Bi2MoO6, thus stimulating charge separation and migration, incenting transformation of reactive oxygen species and facilitating reactants activation, which are synthetically investigated by experimental characterization coupled with DFT calculation. Significantly, the in situ DRIFTS measurement was employed to dynamic monitor the NO oxidation process and clarify the photocatalytic mechanism under visible light irradiation. This work provides an efficient strategy to design photocatalysts with tunable motivating charge conversion and reactants activation towards NO photooxidation. (C) 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.