Organic Pollutant Photodecomposition by Ag/KNbO3 Nanocomposites: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study
Organic Pollutant Photodecomposition by Ag/KNbO3 Nanocomposites: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study
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DOI:
10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b11297
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发表时间:
2016-01
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
Tingting Zhang;Wanying Lei;Ping Liu;J. Rodríguez;Jiaguo Yu;Y. Qi;Gang Liu;Minghua Liu
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作者:
Tingting Zhang;Wanying Lei;Ping Liu;J. Rodríguez;Jiaguo Yu;Y. Qi;Gang Liu;Minghua Liu
Ag nanoparticles supported on well-defined perovskite orthorhombic KNbO3 nanowires are synthesized via facile photoreduction and systematically characterized by XRD, Raman, DRUV–vis, XPS, PL, TEM, HRTEM, and HAADF-STEM. The photoreactivity of Ag/KNbO3 nanocomposites as a function of Ag contents (0.4–2.8 wt %) is assessed toward aqueous rhodamine B degradation under UV- and visible-light, respectively. It is found that the UV-induced photoreactivity initially increases and then decreases with increasing Ag contents. At an optimal Ag content (ca. 1.7 wt %), the greatest photoreactivity is achieved under UV light, with the photocatalytic reaction rate of 1.7 wt % Ag/KNbO3 exceeding that of pristine KNbO3 by a factor of ca. 13. In contrast, visible light-induced photoreactivity monotonically increases with increasing Ag contents in the range of 0.4–2.8 wt %. On the basis of the detected active species and intermediate products in the photocatalytic processes, conjugated structure cleavage and N-deethylation a...