Self-standing Ag2O@YSZ-TiO2 p-n nanoheterojunction composite nanofibrous membranes with superior photocatalytic activity

Study of high-efficiency and free secondary pollution TiO 2 based photocatalyst has become the one of the most urgent problems in improving the decolorization effect of the waste water from printing and dyeing mill. In this work, a novel self-standing Ag 2 O@YSZ-TiO 2 p-n nanoheterojunction nanofibrous membrane was designed for ultraviolet (UV) photocatalyst by a facile combination of electrospinning technique and precipitation process. Moreover, the UV photocatalytic performance of the flexible AZT p-n nanoheterojuction nanofibrous membranes with a band gap energy of 2.89   eV and good reversibility of 5 cycles, was superior to the commercial catalyst P25 for photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue. Furthermore, the photocatalytic mechanism of the flexible Ag 2 O@YSZ-TiO 2 nanofibrous photocatalyst was proposed by the electron transition in Ag 2 O/TiO 2 p-n nanoheterojunction, which showed a new insight to development of flexible and high-efficiency nanoheterojunction nanocrystalline photocatalytic membranes.