FACILE DEPOSITION OF Ag PO NANOPARTICLES
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mance through the degradation of rhodamine B
RhB) under visible-light radiation was evaluated. The
photocatalytic results indicate that the heterostructure
Ag PO /Bi MoO nanocomposites can improve the
separation efficiency of charged carriers which can
lead to enhance the photocatalytic activity for RhB
degradation.
C − C
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Decolorization efficiency, % =
× 100, (1)
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C0
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where C is the initial concentration of RhB and C is
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the concentration of RhB after visible-light irradiation
within the elapsed time (t).
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
EXPERIMENT
The typical XRD patterns of the obtained pure
Bi MoO and the Ag PO /Bi MoO products are
For the present research, all chemicals were analyt-
ical grade and were used without further chemical
treatment. In a typical procedure, each of 5 mmol
Bi(NO ) ⋅ 5H O and Na MoO in each 100 mL RO
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shown in Fig. 1. The diffraction peaks of pure
Bi MoO and Ag PO /Bi MoO samples can be indexed
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to orthorhombic Bi MoO (JCPDS no. 21-0102 [16]).
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water was mixed together. The mixture was transferred
to a 200 mL Teflon-lined stainless steel autoclave,
tightly closed and maintained at 180°C in an electric
oven for 12 h. The obtained precipitates were washed
with distilled water and ethanol and dried at 80°C for
They should be noted that the (210) main characteristic
diffraction peak of cubic Ag PO (JCPDS no. 06-0505
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[
16]) at 2θ = 33.26° overlapped the (002) peak of ort-
horhombic Bi MoO phase. Thus, the Ag PO phase
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24 h for further characterization.
was unable to be detected by this XRD analysis although
the sample was composed of 10.0 wt % Ag PO .
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To synthesize different contents of Ag PO
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nanoparticles deposited on the Bi MoO samples,
The morphology and microstructure of pure
.0–10.0 wt % of AgNO and Na PO of each 1.0 g Bi MoO and Ag PO /Bi MoO samples were investi-
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Bi MoO sample were dissolved in 100 mL RO water. gated by SEM. Fig. 2a shows that the obtained Bi MoO
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They were heated at 180 W microwave for 15 min. Subse- appeared as nanoplates with edge of approximately 1 μm
quently, the products were separated by filtering, washed long. The 5.0 wt % and 10.0 wt % Ag PO /Bi MoO
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with absolute ethanol and dried at 80°C for 24 h.
composites (Figs. 2b, 2c) show Ag PO nanoparticles
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deposited on the surface of Bi MoO after being
Phase of the as-synthesized products was investigated
by an X-ray diffractometer (XRD, Philips X’Pert MPD)
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heated by microwave, and formed Ag PO /Bi MoO
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nanocomposites. At high-magnification of 10.0 wt %
Ag PO /Bi MoO (Fig. 2d), the size of cubic Ag PO
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with CuK radiation operating at 30 kV and 0.02° ⋅ s
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scanning rate in the 2θ range of 15°–60 . Morphology
and microstructure of the products were character-
ized by a field emission scanning electron micro-
scope (FE-SEM, JEOL JSM-6335F) equipped with
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nanoparticles on the Bi MoO nanoplates was around
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0 nm. The elemental mapping of the 10.0 wt %
Ag PO /Bi MoO nanocomposites was detected by
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an Oxford instruments INCA energy dispersive X-ray EDX spectroscopy, as the results shown in Fig. 3. In
(
EDX) spectrometer operating at 35 kV, including a this research, Ag, P, Bi, Mo and O were detected, indi-
transmission electron microscope (TEM, JEOL cating that the composites were mainly composed of
JEM-2010) operated at 200 kV. Nitrogen adsorp- the elemental constituents. The EDX mapping con-
tion/desorption isotherms were measured at 80°C firms that the Ag PO nanoparticles were uniformly
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using a Quantachrome Autosorb 1 MP automated gas distributed across the Bi MoO nanoplates.
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adsorption system and calculated on the basis of
Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) surface analysis.
The photocatalytic activities of the products were
evaluated via the photodegradation of rhodamine B
In addition, the morphologies of Bi MoO and
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Ag PO /Bi MoO samples were investigated by TEM
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as shown in Fig. 4. The TEM image reveals the
Bi MoO nanoplates with the edge of ca 200–400 nm.
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RhB) in aqueous solutions under visible-light radia-
The SAED pattern of a single Bi MoO nanoplate
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tion. For each experiment, 50 mg photocatalyst was
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shows spots of electron diffraction pattern, implying
the presence of single crystalline nanoplate. The pat-
tern can be indexed to (060), (062) and (002) planes
with zone axis along the [100] direction. For the
put in 200 ml of 1 × 10 M RhB aqueous solution.
Before illumination, the suspensions were stirred in
the dark to obtain saturated adsorption of RhB on the
surface of catalyst for 30 min. Then the visible light
was turned on. During testing, each 5 mL of the sus-
pension solution was sampled for every 30 min inter-
val. The sampled solutions were spun to precipitate the
suspensions. The RhB concentration was determined
by a UV-visible spectrometer (Perkin Elmer, Lambda
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0.0 wt % Ag PO /Bi MoO nanocomposites, the
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small Ag PO nanoparticles with the size of about 10–
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5 nm were firmly bound on the surface of Bi MoO
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nanoplates. They enhanced electron transfer between
Ag PO nanoparticles and Bi MoO nanoplates, as
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5 UV-VIS spectrometer) and decolorization effi- well as improving the photocatalytic efficiency.
ciency was calculated by the equation
HRTEM image of 10.0 wt % Ag PO /Bi MoO nano-
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