Facile synthesis of a surface plasmon resonance-enhanced Ag/AgBr heterostructure and its photocatalytic performance with 450 nm LED illumination.

In this paper, a plasmonic Ag/AgBr heterostructure was reduced by AgBr, which was successfully synthesized by a facile hydrothermal process at a temperature as low as 90 °C. The morphological and structural observation, crystallinity and optical performance of the products grown were carried out by using scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, energy dispersive spectrometry and UV-vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy. The photocatalytic activities of Ag/AgBr heterostructures were evaluated by the degradation of methylene blue under 450 nm LED arrays.