APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
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2025
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Lu Chen,Zhengkai Wu,Xueying Cheng,Shuyu Chen,Jiaxin Zhao,Hang Li,Yingna Guo,Qingkun Shang
In this paper, Bi 4 O 5 I 2 /α-Bi 2 O 3 composite photocatalysts were successfully prepared by loading Bi 4 O 5 I 2 nanosheets on the surface of α-Bi 2 O 3 nanorods. The photocatalytic performance was investigated for the degradation of propranolol under visible light. Bi 4 O 5 I 2 /α-Bi 2 O 3 (30) could degrade 95 % of propranolol within 120 min, and the degradation rates of propranolol were 64.3 and 2.68 times that of α-Bi 2 O 3 and Bi 4 O 5 I 2 , respectively. The mineralization degree of propranolol reached 54.7 %, which was also much higher than that of Bi 4 O 5 I 2 and α-Bi 2 O 3 alone. Based on the results of high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS), the possible degradation pathways and products of propranolol were proposed, and the environmental toxicity of the degradation products was evaluated. The formation mechanism of Bi 4 O 5 I 2 /α-Bi 2 O 3 Z-type heterojunction was proposed by investigating the band structure and photoelectric properties of the composite photocatalyst. This work provides a successful example for the construction and application of new heterojunction photocatalysts.
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MOLECULES
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2024
·Vol. 29
·期 9
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Yuhong Lin,Zhuoyuan Chen,Chang Feng,Li Ma,Jiangping Jing,Jian Hou,Likun Xu,Mingxian Sun,Dongchu Chen
In this study, S-doped graphitic carbon nitride (S-C3N4) was prepared using the high-temperature polymerization method, and then S-C3N4/AgCdS heterojunction photocatalyst was obtained using the chemical deposition method through loading Ag-doped CdS nanoparticles (AgCdS NPs) on the surface of S-C3N4. Experimental results show that the AgCdS NPs were evenly dispersed on the surface of S-C3N4, indicating that a good heterojunction structure was formed. Compared to S-C3N4, CdS, AgCdS and S-C3N4/CdS, the photocatalytic performance of S-C3N4/AgCdS has been significantly improved, and exhibits excellent photocatalytic degradation performance of Rhodamine B and methyl orange. The doping of Ag in collaboration with the construction of a Z-scheme heterojunction system promoted the effective separation and transport of the photogenerated carriers in S-C3N4/AgCdS, significantly accelerated its photocatalytic reaction process, and thus improved its photocatalytic performance.
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BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS
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2025
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IF 10.5
Yi Deng,Shuqi Quan,Erkang Tian,Jianwen Dong,Meihong Guo,Juan Li,Hao Yang,Shuangquan Lai
Assessment of bacterial viability is vital for food and clinical biosafety, as it reveals pathogen survival and metabolic state, helping predict their potential to persist and cause illness. Herein, we presented a visible light-driven photoelectrochemical assay (termed DzPEC) designed for signal-on detection of live pathogenic bacteria. The DzPEC assay was fabricated using a DNAzyme-functionalized Z-scheme g-C 3 N 4 /V 2 C bio-heterojunction as a photoresposive material and SiO 2 as a photoquencher. The DzPEC assay, which utilizes DNAzyme to target the metabolic endoprotein RNase H2 that is secreted into the extracellular matrix, allows for bacterial viability assessment. Leveraging the Z-scheme heterojunction with high photoactive performance, the DzPEC assay for Salmonella enterica ( S. enterica ), used as a bacteria model, exhibited a detection limit of 141 CFU/mL and the ability to detect live bacterial abundnace as low as 0.1 %. The DzPEC assay demonstrated a strong correlation with RT-qPCR in the detection of S. enterica contamination in complex food and clinical matrices. These findings highlighted the potential of the DzPEC assay in bacterial viability phenotyping and live bacteria-associated biosafety monitoring.
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微生物学
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JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS
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2020
·Vol. 49
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IF 1.774
Chen Mengshi,Xiao Ye
Tungsten oxide (WO 3 ) has been widely used as a photocatalyst for its suitable bandgap and relative stability. However, the high recombination rate of photo-generated carriers impedes raising the photocatalytic efficiency of tungsten oxide (WO 3 ) beyond its current value. In this work, a cadmium sulfide (CdS) and tungsten oxide (WO 3 ) Z-scheme heterostructure system was constructed which shows improved photocatalytic performance due to better hole-electron separation. In addition, photonic crystal fluorine-doped SnO 2 (FTO) was applied to the photoanode as a supporting framework for CdS and WO 3 , which can also play a role in assisting photocatalytic materials to assimilate light at the same time. As a result, the overall photocatalytic performance of a Z-scheme system on a photonic crystal framework has been significantly increased beyond that of conventional tungsten oxide.
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RSC Advances
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2019
·Vol. 9
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Kaili Wei,Baolai Wang,Jiamin Hu,Fuming Chen,Qing Hao,Guannan He,Yinzhen Wang,Wei Li,Junming Liu,Qinyu He
It's highly desired to design and fabricate an effective Z-scheme photo-catalyst with excellent charge transfer and separation, and a more negative conduction band edge (ECB) than O2/·O2− (−0.33 eV) and a more positive valence band edge (EVB) than ·OH/OH− (+2.27 eV) which provides high-energy redox radicals. Herein, we firstly designed and synthesized a core–shell-heterojunction-structured Z-scheme system BaTiO3@In2S3 (BT@IS, labelled as BTIS) through a hydrothermal method, where commercial BT was used as the core and In(NO3)3·xH2O together with thioacetamide as the precursor of IS was utilized as the shell material. In this system, the shell IS possesses a ECB of −0.76 eV and visible-light-response Eg of 1.92 eV, while the core BT possesses a EVB of 3.38 eV, which is well suited for a Z-scheme. It was found that the as-prepared BTIS possesses a higher photocatalytic degradation ability for methyl orange (MO) than commercial BT and the as-prepared IS fabricated by the same processing parameters as those of BTIS. Holes (h+) and superoxide radicals (·O2−) were found to be the dominant active species for BTIS. In this work, the core–shell structure has inhibited the production of ·OH because the shell IS has shielded the OH− from h+. It is assumed that if the structure of BTIS is a composite, not a core–shell structure, ·OH could be produced during photocatalysis, and therefore a higher photocatalytic efficiency would be obtained. This current work opens a new pathway for designing Z-scheme photocatalysts and offers new insight into the Z-scheme mechanism for applications in the field of photocatalysis.
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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
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2018
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Taiping Hu,Pengfei Li,Jinfeng Zhang,Changhao Liang,Kai Dai
Cadmium sulfide (CdS) has demonstrated great promise in artificial photocataytic hydrogen (H 2 ) production. However, the serious photocorrosion hinders its effective interaction and real-life application. In this work, a typical direct Z-scheme WO 3 /CdS-diethylenetriamine (CdS-DETA) composite has been designed via facile in-situ solvothermal method, which exhibits excellent H 2 production properties in visible light region. In this system, the inorganic–organic CdS-DETA nanobelts (NBs) possess enough active sites and large surface area for the encouraging nanojunction structure information. Furthermore, we also systematically calculated energy band structure and investigated charge transfer of the WO 3 /CdS-DETA by PL and photocurrent test, the results demonstrated that the suitable band gap matching between CdS-DETA and WO 3 and high redox potential improve the separation of photogenerated holes and electrons, restraining intrinsic photocorrosion of CdS as well as improving the photocatalytic activity. 5%WO 3 /CdS-DETA presented the most outstanding H 2 evolution rate (15522 μmol g −1 h −1 ), which is twice higher than that of pure CdS-DETA. WO 3 /CdS-DETA composites also presented high stability after three recycle H 2 production experiment. Finally, direct Z-scheme photocatalytic mechanism is calculated.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2022
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IF 16.744
Jiadong Li,Feng Wei,Ziyuan Xiu,Xiaojun Han
InVO 4 possesses great potential in photocatalytic CO 2 conversion. It is still highly desired to develop efficient strategies of photocatalyst fabrication to prevent its attenuated activity caused by the rapid recombination of photogenerated electron-hole. Herein, a direct Z-scheme heterojunction of Bi 2 WO 6 /InVO 4 nanosheets is constructed via two-step hydrothermal synthesis. The Bi 2 WO 6 /InVO 4 composite exhibits a superior photocatalytic performance toward CO 2 reduction into CO and CH 4 under visible light irradiation. The CO evolution rate reaches up to 17.97 μmol g −1 h −1 , while the CH 4 production rate is 1.13 μmol g −1 h −1 , which are higher than those catalyzed by bare InVO 4 and bare Bi 2 WO 6 . Based on the photoelectrochemical results, hydroxyl radical test, Scanning Kelvin Probe (SKP) and electron spin resonance (ESR) investigation, the enhanced activity of CO 2 reduction can be attributed to a Z-scheme electron transfer at the interface to promote spatial charge separation, which effectively preserves the reduction ability of photoelectron on the conduction band of InVO 4 for CO 2 conversion.
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MICROCHIMICA ACTA
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2023
·Vol. 190
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IF 5.7
Shen Yuru,Sun Chenglong,Chen Mingjian,Du Yun,Cheng Jun,Li Yunlong,Xie Qingji
A new BiVO 4 -carboxylated graphene (cG)-WO 3 Z-scheme heterojunction was constructed on a fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) substrate electrode by ultrasonic mixing and cast-coating for determination of oxytetracycline (OTC). Since cG can absorb visible light and well match with the energy levels of WO 3 and BiVO 4 to promote the charge separation and transfer, the photocurrent on the BiVO 4 -cG-WO 3 /FTO photoelectrode is 4.4 times that on the control BiVO 4 -WO 3 /FTO photoelectrode. An amino-functionalized OTC aptamer was fixed on the BiVO 4 -cG-WO 3 /FTO photoelectrode by the 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl) carbodiimide/N-hydroxysuccinimide mediated amide reaction, and then hexaammonium ruthenium(III) (Ru(NH 3 ) 6 3+ ) was attached to the OTC aptamer to increase the photocurrent response to the OTC binding. Under the optimized conditions, the photocurrent on the BiVO 4 -cG-WO 3 /FTO photoelectrode at 0 V vs SCE was linear with the common logarithm of OTC concentration from 0.01 nM to 500 nM, with a limit of detection of 3.1 pM ( S / N = 3). Satisfactory recovery results were obtained in the analysis of real water samples. Graphical abstract
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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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2024
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IF 11.2
Mao-Jin Ran,Meng Wang,Zhi-Yi Hu,Yi-Fu Huang,Lin-Dong Wang,Lu Wu,Man-Man Yuan,Jian Zhang,Bei Li,Gustaaf Van Tendeloo,Yu Li,Bao-Lian Su
Constructing heterojunctions have received significant attention in photocatalysis because of their efficient separation of photogenerated carriers and improving light utilization efficiency. Bimetallic sulfides (e.g. NiCo 2 S 4 ) are applied in electrocatalysis and supercapacitors that can be coupled with TiO 2 to form a heterojunction . Owing to the staggered energy band arrangement between TiO 2 and NiCo 2 S 4 , the establishing of a Z-scheme heterojunction between them is expected to enhance the carrier separation efficiency and reduce the sulfide photo-corrosion. However, the application of NiCo 2 S 4 in photocatalysis and studies on the mechanism of the TiO 2 /NiCo 2 S 4 Z-scheme heterojunction have seldom been reported. In this work, we obtained a hollow core-shell TiO 2 /NiCo 2 S 4 Z-scheme photocatalyst through a solvothermal method for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution (PHE). The PHE rate of the optimized TiO 2 /NiCo 2 S 4 -0.3 is 8.55 mmol g − 1 h − 1 , approximately 34 times higher than pure TiO 2 , 94 times higher than pure NiCo 2 S 4 . The remarkable photocatalytic activity can be ascribed to the hollow structure and the in-situ constructed Z-scheme heterojunction. The photogenerated charge transfer mechanism is revealed by hydroxyl radical trapping experiments and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) characterization. The in-situ construction of the Z-scheme heterojunction not only enhances the efficiency of separating the photogenerated carriers but also reduces the photo-corrosion of NiCo 2 S 4 . This study proposes an effective strategy for the design of TiO 2 -based Z-scheme heterojunctions and the application of NiCo 2 S 4 in photocatalysis .
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Catalysts
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2019
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IF 3.444
Pingfan Xu,Siyi Huang,Minghua Liu,Yuancai Lv,Zhonghui Wang,Jinlin Long,Wei Zhang,Haojun Fan
Semiconductor photocatalysis has received much attention as a promising technique to solve energy crisis and environmental pollution. This work demonstrated the rational design of “sandwich” WO3/rGO/SnIn4S8(WGS) Z-scheme photocatalysts for efficient purification of wastewater emitted from tannery and dyeing industries. Such materials were prepared by a combined protocol of the in situ precipitation method with hydrothermal synthesis, and structurally characterized by XRD, SEM, HRTEM, UV-vis DRS, and PL spectroscopy. Results showed that the Z-schemed nanohybrids significantly enhanced the photocatalytic activity compared to the single component photocatalysts. An optimized case of the WGS-2.5% photocatalysts exhibited the highest Cr(VI) reduction rate, which was ca. 1.8 and 12 times more than those of pure SnIn4S8(SIS) and WO3, respectively. Moreover, the molecular mechanism of the enhanced photocatalysis was clearly revealed by the radical-trapping control experiments and electron paramagnetic resonance (ESR) spectroscopy. The amount of superoxide and hydroxyl radicals as the major reactive oxygen species performing the redox catalysis was enhanced significantly on the Z-scheme WGS photocatalysts, where the spatial separation of photoinduced electron–hole pairs was therefore accelerated for the reduction of Cr(VI) and degradation of Rhodamine B (RhB). This study provides a novel strategy for the synthesis of all-solid-state Z-scheme photocatalysts for environmental remediation.Keywords:WO3/rGO/SnIn4S8;Z-scheme photocatalyst;active oxygen species;photocatalytic Cr (VI) reduction;rGO
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APPLIED CLAY SCIENCE
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2022
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IF 5.907
Lianyang Zhang,Yue Meng,Tiantian Dai,Yiyang Yao,Hui Shen,Bo Xie,Zheming Ni,Shengjie Xia
The decahedral morphology of BiVO 4 and ZnCr-layered double hydroxides (LDHs) nanosheets enables the construction of a BiVO 4 @LDHs Z -scheme heterojunction (BiVO 4 as core and LDHs as a shell) for photocatalytic degradation of norfloxacin, typical antibiotic. The effects of initial concentration of norfloxacin, catalyst loading, reaction temperature, and pH value on the performance of photodegradation were studied. It was found that the removal of norfloxacin can reach 90.3% under the optimized conditions. The core-shell structure enhances the specific surface area, improves the energetic alignment of the band structures, and produces enough hydroxyl and superoxide radicals to degrade norfloxacin. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations show that a built-in electric field is formed between ZnCr-LDHs and BiVO 4 , which promotes the transfer of photogenerated electrons from the valence band of ZnCr–LDHs to the conduction band of BiVO 4 . This transfer accelerates the flow of photogenerated electrons and reduces the recombination of electron-hole pairs, so that BiVO 4 @LDHs heterojunction shows excellent photocatalytic activity for norfloxacin.
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NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
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2023
·Vol. 47
·期 45
·21010-21023
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IF 3.3
Taoming Yu,Li Liu,Yuehui Wang,Shiwen Zhang,Lili Li,Ce Liang
The construction of photocatalysts with a Z-scheme heterojunction is considered to be a superior strategy for improving photocatalytic activity. In this study, a photocatalyst (PI/TiC/TiO2) with a Z-scheme heterojunction was fabricated, in which polyimide (PI) and TiO2 were used as the organic/inorganic semiconductor photocatalyst and TiC acted as the transmission bridge for electrons between PI and TiO2. In the self-made air flow photocatalytic reactor, the photocatalytic degradation efficiencies of organic dyes by PI/TiC/TiO2 increased with the increase of both the concentration and diffusion rate of O2. The degradation efficiencies of RhB and MB by PI/TiC/TiO2 reached 93.87% and 90.96%, respectively, within 90 min of visible light exposure, showing its outstanding photocatalytic performance. The mechanism analysis indicated that the Z-scheme heterojunction in PI/TiC/TiO2 facilitated the separation and migration of photoexcited charges while retaining stronger redox capabilities for charge carriers. This study provides an insight into the construction of visible light responsive organic/inorganic photocatalysts with Z-scheme heterojunctions for organic pollution treatment applications.
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