BiOI@CeO2@Ti3C2 MXene composite S-scheme photocatalyst with excellent bacteriostatic properties

As an influential antifouling material, photocatalytic materials have drawn attention increasingly over recent years owing to their potential bacteriostatic property in the domain of marine antifouling. Herein, a flower-like BiOI@CeO 2 @Ti 3 C 2 S-scheme photocatalyst was contrived and prepared by hydrothermal method . The innovative combination of Ti 3 C 2 and narrow band gap semiconductor BiOI was implemented to modify CeO 2 and the photocatalytic bacteriostatic mechanism of BiOI@CeO 2 @Ti 3 C 2 was elucidated. Schottky junction was formed between CeO 2 and Ti 3 C 2 , and a p-n junction was formed between CeO 2 and BiOI. By photoelectrochemical characterization, BCT-10 exhibits the best photoelectrochemical performance of which photogenerated carrier transport can be performed more readily at 10 % CeO 2 @Ti 3 C 2 addition. 99.76 % and 99.89 % of photocatalytic bacteriostatic efficiency of BCT-10 against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus were implemented respectively, which were 2.98 and 3.07 times higher than that of pure CeO 2 . The ternary heterojunction can suppress photogenerated electron-hole complexes more effectively and enhance the photocatalytic bacteriostatic effect of CeO 2 , which also provided a new concept to the further broadened application of CeO 2 in the marine bacteriostatic and antifouling field.