A novel heterostructured plasmonic photocatalyst with high photocatalytic activity: Ag@AgCl nanoparticles modified titanium phosphate nanoplates

Photocatalytic Applications of Heterostructure Graphitic Carbon Nitride: Pollutant Degradation, Hydrogen Gas Production (water splitting), and CO2 Reduction

“…The surface chemistry of the as-prepared composite has the greatest impact on its photocatalytic activity. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) characterization has been extensively used to determine the surface chemistry of materials [57] by studying the changes in the electronic density on the different surfaces of a photocatalyst through investigating the shift in the binding energies [58]. A shift in the binding energy of a specific element of the semiconductor is caused by the introduction of the foreign materials which affects the electron migration on its surface [25, 31]…”

Solvothermal Crystallization of Ag/AgxO-AgCl Composites: Effect of Different Chloride Sources/Shape-Tailoring Agents

“…In some specific cases (such as for AgCl_KCl_NØ and AgCl_HCl_SDS), additional overlapping diffraction peaks appeared at 2θ ≈ 27.6 • , 32.5 • , and 45.9 • (which mainly overlapped with the reflections of AgCl mentioned above). The explanation of these signals may be found in the synthesis procedure/crystallization conditions: Other researchers also observed this phenomenon, but no further discussion of the signals' origin was found [33][34][35]. Besides the reflections of AgCl mentioned above, other weak reflections (2θ ≈ 24.9 • , 29.0 • , and 41.4 • , 38.2 • ; Supplementary Table S1, Figure 1b,c) were observed, which could be attributed to the presence of AgClO 4 , AgClO 3 , and Ag, although their quantity was very low.…”

Cl−-Induced selective fabrication of 3D AgCl microcrystals by a one-pot synthesis method

“…Up to now, extensive research has shown that surface plasmon resonance (SPR) induced electron transfer and, thus, led to high photocatalytic activity of AgCl. [20][21][22][23][24] In addition, many kinds of well-defined AgCl micro/nanocrystals including nanospheres, 25 cubes, [26][27][28] plates, [29][30][31] caged cubes 32,33 and nanowires [34][35][36] have been synthesised and they showed significant photocatalytic activity in the degradation of organic pollutants under visible light irradiation. For example, Yu prepared heart-like Ag@AgCl crystals, which exhibit enhanced visible light photocatalytic performance.…”