Chemosphere
July 2022
An efficient BiVOnanocatalyst with Erbium (Er) and Yttrium (Y) doping was synthesized via a facile microwave irradiation route and the obtained materials were further characterized through various techniques such as p-XRD, FT-IR, FE-SEM, HR-TEM, UV-Vis DRS, PL, LSV, and EISanalysis. The obtained results revealed that the rare metals induce the stabilization of the monoclinic-tetragonal crystalline structure with a distinct morphology. The yttrium doped BiVO (Y-BiVO) monoclinic-tetragonal exhibited anefficient photoelectrochemical water splitting and photocatalytic performanceare compared to bare BiVO.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEffective exploitation of visible-light unique structural and electronic properties has enormously attracted more researchers for photocatalytic systems. Here, we have fabricated an efficient BiWO-Ag plasmonic hybrid via the photoreduction technique and the obtained materials were well characterized with sophisticated instruments. The BW-Ag-1 catalyst showed the maximum photocatalytic activity for the degradation of cationic dyes rhodamine B (RhB) and malachite green (MG) and the rate constant was 2.
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