Rational Design of W-Doped AgPO as an Efficient Antibacterial Agent and Photocatalyst for Organic Pollutant Degradation.

Bacterial and organic pollutants are major problems with potential adverse impacts on human health and the environment. A promising strategy to alleviate these impacts consists in designing innovative photocatalysts with a wider spectrum of application. In this paper, we report the improved photocatalytic and antibacterial activities of chemically precipitated AgPO microcrystals by the incorporation of W at doping levels 0.

Microwave-Driven Hexagonal-to-Monoclinic Transition in BiPO: An In-Depth Experimental Investigation and First-Principles Study.

Present theoretical and experimental work provides an in-depth understanding of the morphological, structural, electronic, and optical properties of hexagonal and monoclinic polymorphs of bismuth phosphate (BiPO). Herein, we demonstrate how microwave irradiation induces the transformation of a hexagonal phase to a monoclinic phase in a short period of time and, thus, the photocatalytic performance of BiPO. To complement and rationalize the experimental results, first-principles calculations have been performed within the framework of density functional theory.