High Efficient Carbon Quantum Dots/BiOCl Nanocomposite for Photocatalytic Pollutant Degradation

doi:10.15541/jim20190211

Abstract

Abstract:

To overcome the limitation of narrow photo-absorption range and high electron-hole recombination rate of pure BiOCl, a nanocomposite of carbon quantum dots (CQDs) and BiOCl with highly efficient photocatalytic activity was fabricated. The photocatalytic decomposition of rhodamine B (RhB) showed that the CQDs/BiOCl nanocomposite displayed superior photocatalytic performance to pure BiOCl, which was about 3.4 times higher than that of the latter. The optimal loading amount of CQDs was 7.1wt%, which could completely decolorize RhB within a short period of only 2 min, while the degradation rate of RhB was only 29.5% by pure BiOCl in the same period. UV-Vis diffuse reflectance spectra (UV-Vis DRS), photoelectrochemical measurement, and radicals trapping experiments were performed to elucidate the possible mechanism for the enhanced photocatalytic activity of the CQDs/BiOCl composite. The results show that CQD can expand the visible light absorption range of BiOCl, which is beneficial for light harvesting and generation of electron-hole pairs. Moreover, CQDs has unique up-converted photoluminescence behavior, as well as photo-induced electron transfer ability, which leads to enhanced photocatalytic performance of the CQDs/BiOCl composite.

Key words: photocatalysis, CQDs/BiOCl, nanocomposite, up-converted photoluminescence

CLC Number:

O641

ZHANG Zhijie,HUANG Hairui,CHENG Kun,GUO Shaoke. High Efficient Carbon Quantum Dots/BiOCl Nanocomposite for Photocatalytic Pollutant Degradation[J]. Journal of Inorganic Materials, 2020, 35(4): 491-496.

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