Fabrication of powder and modular H3PW12O40/Ag3PO4 composites: Novel visible-light photocatalysts for ultra-fast degradation of organic pollutants in water

Removal and degradation of mixed dye pollutants by integrated adsorption-photocatalysis technique using 2-D MoS2/TiO2 nanocomposite

“…In recent years, photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants has been considered as a sustainable technology for wastewater treatment. (Vergili et al, 2012;Hermosilla et al, 2015;Kou et al, 2017;Park et al, 2017;Mehta et al, 2018;Li et al, 2020) The promise of photocatalytic degradation lies in the possibility of deployment in off-grid areas.…”

Fabrication of AgCl/Ag3PO4/graphitic carbon nitride heterojunctions for enhanced visible light photocatalytic decomposition of methylene blue, methylparaben and E. coli

“…[14][15][16][17] Among them, silver orthophosphate (Ag 3 PO 4 ), an efficient n-type photocatalytic material, has high quantum efficiency (up to 90%) and indirect band gap of 2.36 eV, making it a prospective visible-light induced photocatalyst. 18,19 However, there are still some drawbacks that largely limit the practical application of Ag 3 PO 4 , including recombination of electronhole pairs and severe photo-corrosion, which restricts the reusability of the Ag 3 PO 4 composite photocatalysts. [20][21][22] Besides, Ag 3 PO 4 is also prone to photogeneration to form metallic Ag.…”

Color‐tunable and bright nonconjugated fluorescent polymer dots and fast photodegradation of dyes under visible light

“…[21,22] Nevertheless, research on the application of nonconjugated PDs as photocatalysts has been rarely reported. Much work so far has focused on metal oxide photocatalysts with no detrimental products under ambient conditions, [23][24][25][26][27] including Cu/ZnO catalysts, [28] BiOCl/TiO 2 composite, [29] H 3 PW 12 O 40 /Ag 3 PO 4 powder, [30] of which the fabrication makes it too costly for practical use, and the narrow band gap leads to fast recombination of photogenerated charge carriers. By comparison, it is feasible to modulate the band gap of nonconjugated PDs with controllable electronic structures and flexible processability.…”