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Facile synthesis and photocatalytic activity of Bi2O3/BiV 4 nanocomposites

J. JIANG1, X. LUAN1, M. CHEN1, Q. YANG1, L. LI1,* , M. ZHANG1,*

Affiliation

  1. School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei 235000, China

Abstract

Using NH4VO3 and Bi(NO3 3 ·5H2O as raw materials, the Bi2O3/BiVO4 nano composites were synthesized by a simple two steps process involving ball milling solid state reaction and subsequent thermal treatment. X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) and UV Vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy were employed to study the phase structures and optical properties of the synthesized products. The influences of the experimental parameters such as milling time, annealing time on the phase formation and crystal structure of the synthesized products were studied. At the same time, the photocatalytic experimental results showed that the as synthesized Bi2O3/BiVO4 had a higher photocatalytic efficiency than pure Bi2O3 and BiVO4 for the photocatalytic degradation of methyl orange (MO) under visible light irradiat ion. In addition, the influences of Bi2O3 content on the photocatalytic activity of xBi2O3/BiVO4 was observed, and 0.3Bi 2O3/BiVO4 showed the best photocatalytic activity activity..

Keywords

Bi2O3/BiVO4, Composites, Photocatalytic degradation, Solid-state reaction.

Citation

J. JIANG, X. LUAN, M. CHEN, Q. YANG, L. LI, M. ZHANG, Facile synthesis and photocatalytic activity of Bi2O3/BiV 4 nanocomposites, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 9, 3-4, March-April 2015, pp.464-467 (2015).

Submitted at: Feb. 9, 2015

Accepted at: March 19, 2015