Acta Phys. -Chim. Sin. ›› 2024, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (11): 2407014.doi: 10.3866/PKU.WHXB202407014

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Improved Photo-Carrier Transfer by an Internal Electric Field in BiOBr/N-rich C3N5 3D/2D S-Scheme Heterojunction for Efficiently Photocatalytic Micropollutant Removal

Changjun You1, Chunchun Wang1, Mingjie Cai2, Yanping Liu1,*(), Baikang Zhu1,*(), Shijie Li1,*()   

  1. 1 Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Petrochemical Environmental Pollution Control, National Engineering Research Center for Marine Aquaculture, Key Laboratory of Health Risk Factors for Seafood of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan 316022, Zhejiang Province, China
    2 College of Environmental Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
  • Received:2024-07-14 Revised:2024-08-12 Accepted:2024-08-13 Published:2024-10-14
  • Contact: Email: liuyp@zjou.edu.cn (Yanping Liu)zszbk@126.com (Baikang Zhu)lishijie@zjou.edu.cn (Shijie Li)
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(U1809214); the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province of China(LY20E080014); the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province of China(LTGN23E080001); the Open Research Subject of Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Petrochemical Environmental Pollution Control(2021Y02); the Science and Technology Project of Zhoushan(2022C41011)

Abstract:

Photocatalytic wastewater decontamination techniques hold eminent promise in mitigating environmental deterioration, yet the lack of distinctive photocatalysts prevents their further large-scale application. Herein, an S-scheme heterojunction photocatalyst BiOBr/C3N5 (BBN) was fabricated for efficiently dislodging micropollutants under visible light. Among the BBN samples, the optimal BBN-2 demonstrated exceptional activity in photocatalytic TC removal with a rate constant of 0.0139 min‒1, which surpassed that of pure BiOBr and C3N5 by 0.6 and 2.8 times, respectively. The spatially segregated photoredox sites and efficient photo-carrier separation propelled by an internal electric field are found to play a cardinal role in promoting photoreaction kinetics. Moreover, BBN-2 exhibited remarkable resistance to environmental interference and stability, retaining a high activity level after five runs. Through active radical detection, •O2‒, h+ and •OH were identified as the primary active species in the photocatalytic reaction process. This research would encourage the exploration of C3N5-based photocatalysts for environmental protection.

Key words: C3N5, S-scheme heterojunction, Micropollutant removal, Internal electric field, Photocatalysis