Fourmont, Paul and Cloutier, Sylvain G..
2022.
« Screen-printed p-n BiOCl/BiFeO3 heterojunctions for efficient photocatalytic degradation of Rhodamine B ».
RSC Advances, vol. 12, nº 38.
pp. 24868-24875.
Compte des citations dans Scopus : 7.
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Abstract
Colloidal-free screen-printed p–n BiOCl/BiFeO3 heterojunctions are successfully synthesized to achieve photocatalytic degradation of Rhodamine B (RhB) using visible light (l $ 400 nm). The crystalline structure of dense BiOCl nanosheets self-assembled with impressive aspect ratio atop BFO powders is confirmed by XRD, Raman and TEM measurements. Iron impurities inside these 10 � 2 nm-thick BiOCl nanosheets increase visible light absorption. Fluorescent Rhodamine B (RhB) dye degradation is used to evaluate the photocatalytic performance of this unique heterojunction material. For optimal metal- enhanced RhB degradation, a few nanometers of platinum are deposited using the sputtering technique to act as a cocatalyst. This unique architecture yields an impressive 92% RhB degradation in only 150 min under visible light. Operating at near-neutral pH, the proposed approach also addresses the key issue of catalysis recovery, which remains one of the main drawbacks of current photocatalysis technologies
| Item Type: | Peer reviewed article published in a journal |
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| Professor: | Professor Cloutier, Sylvain G. |
| Affiliation: | Génie électrique |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Sep 2022 16:13 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Oct 2022 15:52 |
| URI: | https://espace2.etsmtl.ca/id/eprint/25185 |
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