Aerosol-spraying preparation of Bi2MoO6: A visible photocatalyst in hollow microspheres with a porous outer shell and enhanced activity

On structure and methylene blue degradation activity of an Aurivillius-type photocatalyst of Bi4V2O11 nanoparticles

“…The repulsive force due to existence of lone pair in the lattices can apply to other bonding schemes generally causing a heavy distortion of the structure. Bi 3+ -containing oxides have been widely developed for potential visible light active photocatalysts due to the peculiar electronic structure in these materials such as BiVO 4 [13], Bi 2 O 3 [14], Bi 2 WO 6 [15], Bi 2 MoO 6 [16], Bi 20 TiO 32 [17], Bi 12 MO 20 (M = Ti, Ge, Si) [18], and so on. Among them BiVO 4 -based photocatalysts have been intensively reported [11,13,[19][20][21][22][23][24] which possess optical absorption and photocatalytic activities.…”

One-dimensional Bi2MoO6 nanotubes: controllable synthesis by electrospinning and enhanced simulated sunlight photocatalytic degradation performances

“…Removal of the crystal water molecules of the nitrates and melting organic components takes place between 160 and 260°C . A further increment in weight loss (about 36 %) occurs in the temperature range of 260-400°C which may be due to the fractional decomposition of the citric acid in the precursor and the decomposition of PVP polymer (Shamshi Hassan et al 2014;Miao et al 2013). The two exothermic peaks at around 325 and 403°C on the DSC curve correspond to the decomposition of citric acid and the degradation of PVP, respectively (Li et al 2014b).…”

“…connected through the corner sharing of distorted MoO 6 octahedra (Maczka et al 2010;Gruar et al 2010). The bands below 400 cm -1 were originated from the bending modes of the MoO 6 octahedra coupled with stretching and bending modes of the Bi-O polyhedra (Miao et al 2013). The modes near 343 and 395 cm -1 were corresponding to the E u symmetry bending modes.…”

Synthesis of one-dimensional α-Fe2O3/Bi2MoO6 heterostructures by electrospinning process with enhanced photocatalytic activity

“…The removal of the coordinated water molecules of the nitrates takes place at the range of 160e260 C, which is a slow and small weight loss (~10%) step. The significant weight loss of approximately 38% between 280 and 400 C was attributed to the complete decomposition of nitrates and the degradation of PVP, which involves both intra-and intermolecular transfer reactions [21,22]. The two exothermic peaks at around 313 and 382 C on the DSC curve correspond to the decomposition of citric acid and the degradation of PVP, respectively.…”