Fabricating
nanostructures and doping engineering are beneficial
to tailor the photocatalytic activity of semiconductor materials,
and the semiconducting photocatalysis is deemed to be one of the potential
protocols to handle the environmental pollution and energy crisis
issues. Herein, rodlike Cd-doped ZnWO
4
Zn
1–
x
Cd
x
WO
4
nanoarchitectures
were triumphantly prepared by a template-free strategy. The crystal
structure, chemical state, optical, and photocatalytic features of
the Zn
1–
x
Cd
x
WO
4
nanoarchitectures were studied using a variety
of characterizations. The Zn
1–
x
Cd
x
WO
4
nanoarchitectures exhibit
glorious photocatalytic performance compared with pristine ZnWO
4
for the degradation of methyl orange in sewage. Mechanistic
studies were executed for getting insights into the photocatalytic
degradation process, and the remarkable photocatalytic property of
the doped ZnWO
4
nanoarchitectures is attributed to the
boosted optical absorptive efficiency and the valid segregation and
transmission of photogenerated charge carriers deriving from doping
effects. The doped nanoarchitectures of this work have promising applications
in the territories such as environment and energy chemistry, and the
insight proposed in this work will contribute to develop other functionalized
nanoarchitectures.