Microwave synthesis of bismuth nanospheres using bismuth citrate as a precursor

Highly efficient photocatalytic reduction of Cr(VI) by bismuth hollow nanospheres

“…[11][12][13] In the past decades, bismuth nanostructures with different morphologies and specific electronic band structures such as nanotubes [14], micro/ nanospheres [15][16][17], nanoparticles [18], nanocubes [19] and nanowires [20] were successfully synthesized. In our previous study, bismuth hollow nanospheres were also successfully synthesized and exhibited high efficient Cr(VI) adsorption characteristics [21].…”

“…To better understand the outstanding photocatalytic ability of bismuth hollow nanospheres, the diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) were carried Catalysis Communications 42 (2013) [14][15][16][17][18][19] out. To the best of our knowledge, there is no report involving the photocatalytic activities of Bi nanomaterials in wastewater treatment.…”

Large-scale synthesis of bismuth sulfide nanorods by microwave irradiation

“…As a rapid, simple and effective heating method, microwave irradiation, with direct microwave heating of the molecular precursors, has been widely used in the synthesis of high-quality nanomaterials [34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48]. It can reduce the reaction time significantly and has the advantage of uniform heating without heating temperature gradient and lag effect [49][50][51].…”

Solvothermal synthesis of uniform bismuth nanospheres using poly(N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone) as a reducing agent

“…It was also reported that spherical bismuth nanomaterials were a good catalyst for the growth of SnS 2 nanotubes and germanium nanowires [ 21 , 22 ]. Up to now, a wide variety of bismuth nanostructures such as nanoparticles [ 23 ], nanowires [ 24 ], nanorods [ 25 ], nanotubes [ 26 - 28 ], triangular nanoplates [ 29 ], bunch-like nanostructures [ 17 ], nanocubes [ 30 ], as well as nanospheres (>100 nm) [ 31 - 34 ] have been prepared by using different methods. Among these methods, solvothermal synthesis has become an important and promising approach to prepare controlled inorganic nanocrystals [ 35 - 37 ].…”

“…In the reported literatures, the alcohol [normally ethylene glycol (EG)] was used as both solvent and reducing agent to generate bismuth nanospheres with a wide size distribution [ 31 - 34 ]. Wang and Xia [ 38 ] have developed the synthesis of uniform bismuth nanospheres by thermal decomposition bismuth acetate in EG under the protection of nitrogen.…”