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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 554, Issue -, Pages 743-751Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2019.07.077
Keywords
Interfacial charge; Hydrothermal carbonation carbon; Adsorption; Active species; Degradation pathway
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21303118, 21872102]
- Start-up Funds for High-Level Talents of Sun Yat-sen University [38000-18841209]
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In this work, the chlorine-doped and undoped hydrothermal carbonation carbon (Cl-HTCC, HTCC) photo catalysts were used to study the correlation of their interfacial charge and photocatalytic performance. For degradation of aromatic dye, rhodamine B (RhB), Cl-HTCC manifests much better photocatalytic performance compared with that of undoped HTCC. Besides the slightly enhanced charge transfer brought, the Cl-HTCC showed more negatively interfacial charge and thus a stronger adsorption of positively charged RhB. This made the photogenerated holes (h(+)) directly react with the adsorbed RhB, which does not require the h(+) to produce hydroxyl radical ((OH)-O-center dot) and reduce its lost during the transformation, thus enhanced the performance of Cl-HTCC. While for undoped HTCC, it showed a weaker adsorption of RhB, and the photogenerated h(+) firstly reacted with H2O molecules to produce (OH)-O-center dot. Then, the (OH)-O-center dot can attack the RhB. Besides, the intermediates and the degradation pathways are also evaluated here via UPLC-MS. Results show that the interfacial charge also dominated the degradation pathways. This work provides a novel metal-free photocatalyst for environmental remediation and will inspire further efforts to enhance the photocatalytic performance by concerning interfacial conditions. (C) 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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