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Catalytic ozone (O3) decomposition at high relative humidity (RH) remains a great challenge due to the catalysts poison and deactivation under high humidity. Here, we firstly elaborate the role of water activation and the corresponding mechanism of the promoted O3 decomposition over the three‐dimensional monolithic molybdenum oxide/graphdiyne (MoO3/GDY) catalyst. The O3 decomposition over MoO3/GDY reaches up to 100% under high humid condition (75% RH) at room temperature, which is 4.0 times as high as that of dry conditions, significantly surpasses other carbon‐based MoO3 materials(≤ 7.1%). The sp‐hybridized carbon in GDY donates electrons to MoO3 along the C‐O‐Mo bond, facilitating water activation to form hydroxyl species. As a result, hydroxyl species dissociated from water act as new active sites, promoting the adsorption of O3 and the generation of new intermediate species (hydroxyl ⋅OH and superoxo ⋅O2−), which significantly lowers the energy barriers of O3 decomposition (0.57 eV lower than dry conditions).

Layered double hydroxide (LDH) is a kind of stratiform compound with a large specific surface area and strong adsorption capacity, which is widely used in printing and dyeing wastewater treatment. Herein, we synthesized ultrathin Zn-Al LDH (U-Zn-Al LDH) by temperature-assisted intercalation exfoliation strategy using sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate (SDBS) at 80 ° C. The thickness of the obtained U-Zn-Al LDH was about 4.5 nm and it featured higher specific surface area (49.5 m2/g) as compared to the pristine sample (26.6 m2/g). As a result, U-Zn-Al LDH exhibited higher adsorption activity of methyl orange (MO) dye. Furthermore, the possibly existed defects during the ultrathining process changed the adsorption mode of MO, resulting in a vertical and ordered configuration of MO on U-Zn-Al LDH, which was another reason for its higher adsorption capacity.