Unveiling the role of tetragonal BiVO4 as a mediator for dual phase BiVO4/g-C3N4 composite photocatalysts enabling highly efficient water oxidation via Z-scheme charge transfer

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Monoclinic scheelite BiVO4 (BVO-M) based materials are of great interest as photocatalysts for water oxidation essential to produce value-added chemical fuels, but their slow charge transfer and low activity are yet to be resolved. As a solution to overcome this challenge, we report Z-scheme photocatalyst fabricated by integrating the dual phase structure of monoclinic scheelite and tetragonal zircon-type BiVO4 (BVO-T) moieties with graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) having pi-conjugated two dimensional layers suited to visible light-induced charge transfer. Moreover, V K-edge and Bi L3-edge X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) and Fourier transformed extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectra demonstrate that the tetragonal zircon-type BiVO4 structures in a Z-scheme catalyst form a bridge between BVO-M and g-C3N4 structures so that it acts as an electron mediator to accelerate charge transfer, in agreement with the zeta-potential analysis and the band structure revealed by UV-vis spectroscopy and ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy analyses. Furthermore, a Z-scheme photocatalyst is exhibited to show a 3-fold longer charge carrier lifetime than BVO-M, thereby enabling the greater than three-fold enhancement in photocatalytic water oxidation activity. Additionally, isotope O-18-labelling experiments reveal that evolved oxygen molecules result from water through photocatalytic water oxidation.
Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
Issue Date
2019-12
Language
English
Article Type
Article
Citation

JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A, v.7, no.46, pp.26279 - 26284

ISSN
2050-7488
DOI
10.1039/c9ta10704e
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http://hdl.handle.net/10203/270799
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EEW-Journal Papers(저널논문)
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