Bi2MoO6/BiFeO3 heterojunction nanofibers: Enhanced photocatalytic activity, charge separation mechanism and magnetic separability. 2018

Ran Tao, and Changlu Shao, and Xinghua Li, and Xiaowei Li, and Shuai Liu, and Shu Yang, and Chengcheng Zhao, and Yichun Liu
Center for Advanced Optoelectronic Functional Materials Research, and Key Laboratory of UV-Emitting Materials and Technology (Northeast Normal University), Ministry of Education, Changchun 130024, PR China.

Uniform Bi2MoO6 nanosheets were grown in a high dispersed fashion on electrospun BiFeO3 nanofibers via a solvothermal technique. The loading amount of Bi2MoO6 in the Bi2MoO6/BiFeO3 heterojunction nanofibers could be controlled by adjusting the precursor concentrations in the solvothermal process. The XPS analysis, energy band position calculation and trapping experiments all proved that the Bi2MoO6/BiFeO3 heterojunction is a Z-scheme heterojunction. The Z-scheme Bi2MoO6/BiFeO3 heterojunction had a much higher photocatalytic activity in the visible-light photodegradation of Rhodamine B (RhB) and tetracycline hydrochloride (TC) than pure BiFeO3 nanofibers or pure Bi2MoO6 nanosheets. The enhanced photocatalytic activity was attributed to the formation of Z-scheme Bi2MoO6/BiFeO3 heterojunctions, which could be beneficial to the separation of photogenerated electron-hole pairs. Moreover, the Bi2MoO6/BiFeO3 heterojunction nanofibers could be easily separated under an external magnetic field via the ferromagnetic BiFeO3. After several cycles, the photocatalytic activity of the Bi2MoO6/BiFeO3 heterojunction no longer significantly decreased suggesting that the Bi2MoO6/BiFeO3 heterojunction is stable. These Z-scheme Bi2MoO6/BiFeO3 heterojunction nanofibers with highly visible-light photocatalytic activity, excellent chemical stability and magnetic separability could be useful in many practical applications.

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