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Impacts of ionic liquid capping on the morphology and photocatalytic performance of SbPO₄ crystals |
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| Author: | Chen, Shunqiang1; Di, Yutong1; Li, Taohai1; |
| Organizations: |
1College of Chemistry, Key Lab of Environment Friendly Chemistry and Applications of Ministry of Education, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, 411105, China 2Nano and Molecular Systems Research Unit, Faculty of Science, University of Oulu, P. O. Box 3000, FIN-90014, Finland |
| Format: | article |
| Version: | accepted version |
| Access: | open |
| Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 1 MB) |
| Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2018082834193 |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Royal Society of Chemistry,
2018
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| Publish Date: | 2019-06-20 |
| Description: |
AbstractBy using [BMIM][PO₄] as a coupling agent, a novel hydrothermal method is developed to prepare microspherical SbPO₄ with different morphologies and photocatalytic abilities. An evolution from flower- to sphere-shaped products was observed. Regular SbPO₄ microspheres with diameters of 10–35 μm were found to exhibit excellent photocatalytic properties to degrade rhodamine B (45 min, 99%) and methylene blue (60 min, 99%) under UV light irradiation. The impacts of the ionic liquid type, capping abilities and reaction conditions on final products were revealed. It is found that by tuning the reaction time and temperature, [BMIM][PO₄] can gradually react with SbCl₃, forming SbPO₄ products with a controllable morphology and a tailored bandgap. The distinguished photocatalytic abilities are attributed to the large surface area and low bandgap energy of the semiconductor. see all
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| Series: |
CrystEngComm |
| ISSN: | 1466-8033 |
| ISSN-E: | 1466-8033 |
| ISSN-L: | 1466-8033 |
| Volume: | 20 |
| Pages: | 4305 - 4312 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/C8CE00790J |
| OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1039/C8CE00790J |
| Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
| Field of Science: |
116 Chemical sciences |
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| Funding: |
The authors acknowledge with thanks the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21601149) and the Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department, China (16B253), the Open Project Program of the State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, China (No. 20150018), the Hunan 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Engineering & Technology with Environmental Benignity and Effective Resource Utilization and the Oulu University Strategic Grant. T. Li acknowledges the Oulu University Short-term International Research Visit grant during his stay in Finland. |
| Copyright information: |
© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2018. |