Synthesis of cube-like Ag/AgCl plasmonic photocatalyst with enhanced visible light photocatalytic activity

Enhanced properties for visible-light-driven photocatalysis of Ag nanoparticle modified Bi2MoO6 nanoplates

“…The hetero-structured semiconducting nanomaterials are one way to improve the photocatalytic activity of visible light driven photocatalysts due to the photo-generated charged carriers transfer, separation distance, recombination rate, and surface plasmon resonance (SPR), leading to the enhancement of photocatalytic activity of the visible light driven photocatalysts [15][16][17] [19,20], BiOCl/Bi 2 MoO 6 [21,22], TiO 2 /Bi 2 MoO 6 [23,24] and Bi 2 MoO 6 /BiPO 4 [25]. Moreover, the incorporation of metal nanocrystals/semiconductors such as Ag/ZnO [26], Ag/TiO2 [27], Ag/AgCl [28] and Ag/MoO 3 [29] has shown great promise for rising visible light photocatalytic activities due to the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) [26,27]. Ag/TiO 2 with Ag 40.5 wt% exhibited more significant degradation efficiency for both amoxicillin and 2,4-dichlorophenol than pure TiO 2 [27].…”

Ultrafine Ag/polyoxometalate-doped AgCl nanoparticles in metal–organic framework as efficient photocatalysts under visible light

“…During this process, POM could store the electrons and accelerate the electrons transferring from the Ag NPs to AgCl, thus suppressing the recombination of holes and electrons in the Ag/AgCl substrate. Since the CB of AgCl (−0.06 eV) 38 is more negative than the potential of the single electron of reduction O 2 (−0.046 eV), 39 the adsorbed oxygen could trap the electrons to form ˙O2 − . And the holes left in the Ag NPs could react with H 2 O to yield ˙OH.…”

Heterogeneous degradation of tetracycline by magnetic Ag/AgCl/modified zeolite X–persulfate system under visible light

“…EIS was applied to study the charge transfer resistance and the separation efficiency between the photogenerated electrons and holes in the heterogeneous composites. 14 Fig. 5 presents the typical EIS Nyquist plots of Ag/AgCl, Ag/AgCl/zeolite X and Ag/ AgCl/(0.05)FeX.…”