Controlled synthesis of m-BiVO4 dendrites for enhanced photocatalytic activity

Synthesis of a monoclinic BiVO4 nanorod array as the photocatalyst for efficient photoelectrochemical water oxidation

“…14 The calculated oxidation potential may be more negative than the calculated valance edge of the material, as veried by the previous literature. 14 Hence, great efforts have been made to improve the photocatalytic properties of BiVO 4 , e.g., developing heterojunctions, [15][16][17] designing morphologies, [18][19][20][21][22] doping ions, [23][24][25] and facet selective deposition. 26,27 The morphology design is the most commonly used way to improve the electron transfer of BiVO 4 photocatalysts.…”

“…Aer irradiating the visible light for 120 min, the photocatalytic degradation rate was nearly 35%, while 55% of the RhB was removed when the photocatalytic degradation time was 240 min using the BiVO 4 dendrites. 20 Chen et al prepared self-assembled BiVO 4 samples with red blood cell-like shapes and ower-like microspheres via a solvothermal approach. The prepared BiVO 4 samples exhibited excellent photocatalytic activity for the degradation of methyl blue (MB) dye under visible light irradiation.…”

CdIn2S4/g-C3N4 heterojunction photocatalysts: enhanced photocatalytic performance and charge transfer mechanism

“…All plots of ln(C 0 /C) against reaction time exhibit a linear relationship, indicating that the MO photocatalytic degradation was described well with the pseudo-rst-order model. 29 The reaction rate constant k of CIS, CN and CIS/CN is 0.00737, 0.00448 and 0.02349, and the k of CIS/CN is about 3.19 times and 5.24 times higher than pure CIS and CN, respectively.…”

One-Pot in Situ Hydrothermal Growth of BiVO4/Ag/rGO Hybrid Architectures for Solar Water Splitting and Environmental Remediation

“…3a ). It is worth to mention that special fern/dendritic architectures have gained the attention of researchers due to the remarkable connectivity between their crystals, which led to improved electrochemical and catalytic properties 28 , 30 , 31 . Submicron sized BiVO 4 fern architectures were formed by perpendicular alignment of the several interconnecting rod-like sub-branches (300–500 nm) supported by an intact backbone (5–7 μm).…”