S-scheme construction boosts highly active self-supporting CeO2/Cu2O photocatalyst for efficient degradation of indoor VOCs

被引:45
作者
Ying, Tiantian [1 ]
Liu, Wei [1 ]
Yang, Lixia [1 ]
Zhang, Shuqu [1 ]
Wu, Ziyi [1 ]
Li, Jinyang [1 ]
Song, Renjie [1 ]
Dai, Weili [1 ]
Zou, Jianping [1 ]
Luo, Shenglian [1 ]
机构
[1] Nanchang Hangkong Univ, Key Lab Jiangxi Prov Persistent Pollutants Control, Nanchang 330063, Jiangxi, Peoples R China
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
S-scheme; CeO2/Cu2O/Cu; Photocatalytic degradation; Indoor VOCs; Self-supporting heterojunctions; NANOCOMPOSITES; HETEROJUNCTION; QUALITY; CEO2;
D O I
10.1016/j.seppur.2023.125272
中图分类号
TQ [化学工业];
学科分类号
0817 ;
摘要
Photocatalyst-governing degradation of VOCs emitted from household products is promising due to its high performance and long-term durability. In this study, unique hierarchical CeO2/Cu2O nanowire arrays with Sscheme construction grow on a Cu mesh through a simple wet chemical method. Abundant oxygen vacancies on CeO2 work as adsorption sites, and the effective separation of photogenerated carriers driven by built-in electric field in the S-scheme CeO2/Cu2O heterojunction generates mobile reactive oxygen radicals for oxidizing target VOCs. Spectra of Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM) reveal that the potential difference at the CeO2/Cu2O interface grows from 9 mV in dark to 29 mV under irradiation, demonstrating a powerful force for driving the migration of photoelectrons. Therefore, under simulated sunlight exposure, 50 ppm of toluene, xylene and formaldehyde can be completely degraded in 70, 50 and 6 min by 15 cm2 CeO2/Cu2O mesh, respectively. The elimination of actual indoor VOCs confirms the practicability of the self-supporting CeO2/Cu2O catalyst, which figures out new ideas for designing efficient photocatalysts for the removal of VOCs pollutants.
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