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Enhanced photocatalytic properties of the 3D flower-like Mg-Al layered double hydroxides decorated with Ag2CO3 under visible light illumination

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MATERIALS RESEARCH BULLETIN
Volume 80, Issue -, Pages 23-29

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.materresbull.2016.03.033

Keywords

Composites; Layered compounds; Semiconductors; Chemical synthesis; Catalytic properties

Funding

  1. National Science Funds for Creative Research Groups of China [51421006]
  2. National Science Fundation of China for Excellent Young Scholars [51422902]
  3. National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars [51225901]
  4. Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University [IRT13061]
  5. Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China [41430751]
  6. National Natural Science Foundation of China [51479065]
  7. PAPD

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A facile anion-exchange precipitation method was employed to synthesize 3D flower-like Ag2CO3/Mg-Al layered double hydroxide composite photocatalyst. Results showed that Ag2CO3 nanoparticles dispersed uniformly on the petals of the flower-like Mg-Al LDH. The obtained nanocomposites exhibited high photocatalytic activities on different organic pollutants (cationic and anionic dyes, phenol) under visible light illumination. The high photocatalytic activity can be ascribed to the special structure which accomplishes the wide-distribution of Ag2CO3 nanoparticles on the surfaces of the 3D flower-like nanocomposites. Therefore, it can provide much more active sites for the degradation of organic pollutant. Then the photocatalytic mechanism was also verified by reactive species trapping experiments in detail. The work would pave a facile way to prepare LDHs based hierarchical photocatalysts with high activity for the degradation of wide range organic pollutants under visible light irradiation. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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