Journal
LANGMUIR
Volume 36, Issue 25, Pages 6930-6937Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b02479
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- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFE0306105]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21574094]
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science Technology
- Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD)
- 111 Project
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices
- Fund for Excellent Creative Research Teams of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
- SRF for ROCS, SEM
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The light-driven micromotor has been demonstrated to have great potential in the environmental remediation field. However, it is still challenging to develop highly efficient, ecofriendly, and visible-light-powered micromotors for organic pollutant degradation. In this paper, we report an ecofriendly micromotor based on iron phthalocyanine (FePc) and gelatin, which exhibits the visible-light-driven self-propulsion behavior using water fuel based on the photocatalytic reaction and self-diffusiophoresis mechanism. Fast motion behavior is observed which induces the rapid agitation of the solution. This, together with the excellent photocatalytic activity, makes the FePc-based micromotor highly efficient when utilized in the degradation of organic pollutants with a normalized reaction rate constant of 2.49 x 10(-2) L m(-2) s(-1), which is by far the fastest and is far superior than the stationary counterpart. The external fuel-free propulsion and the high efficiency in pollutant degradation make the current micromotor potentially attractive for environmental remediation.
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