Flux-assisted synthesis of bismuth nanoparticle decorated carbon nitride for efficient photocatalytic degradation of endocrine disrupting compound.

Bin Zheng, Wu Cui, Fengting He, Yang Zhang, Shuling Wang, Yangming Lu, Chaocheng Zhao, Jinqiang Zhang, Xiaoguang Duan, Hongqi Sun, Shuaijun Wang

Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003) 2022 Dec 06

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Traditional approaches to synthesizing bismuth nanoparticle decorated carbon nitride (C3N4) materials suffer from the complex synthesis process and the addition of a surfactant, which is not conducive to environmental protection. To address these problems, we adopted a simple and green flux-assisted approach for the first time to fabricate metallic bismuth nanoparticle decorated C3N4 (BiCCN). Electron microscopy results suggested that bismuth vanadate was converted into small bismuth nanoparticles via the flux-assisted approach. Highly dispersed Bi nanoparticles dramatically intensify light absorption, facilitate spatial charge separation as electron acceptors, shorten the charge diffusion length, and reserve more active sites for generating reactive species via surface photo-redox reactions. Consequently, the derived optimized photocatalyst BiCCN-15 rendered around 26 times higher photocatalytic degradation efficiency toward an endocrine disrupting compound (bisphenol A) than C3N4. This work provides a novel approach for developing non-precious metal decorated photocatalytic materials for sustainable water decontamination.

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Bin Zheng, Wu Cui, Fengting He, Yang Zhang, Shuling Wang, Yangming Lu, Chaocheng Zhao, Jinqiang Zhang, Xiaoguang Duan, Hongqi Sun, Shuaijun Wang. Flux-assisted synthesis of bismuth nanoparticle decorated carbon nitride for efficient photocatalytic degradation of endocrine disrupting compound. Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003). 2022 Dec 06;51(47):18317-18328