Recently, a growing amount of effort has been devoted to solving the widespread problem of pollution. Photocatalysts have attracted increasing attention for their widespread environmental applications. Here, a classic and simple electrospun technique is used to directly fabricate a porous a tungsten oxide nanoframework with graphene film as a photocatalyst for degradation of pollutants. The as-synthesized film simultaneously possesses substantial adsorptivity of aromatic molecules, extensive light absorption range, significant light trapping, and efficient charge carrier separation properties, which remarkably enhance photocatalytic activity. In the photodegradation of Rhodamine B, a significant photocatalytic enhancement in the reaction rate is observed, which has superior photocatalytic activity compared to other bare WO and TiO nanomaterials under visible-light irradiation.
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College of Materials and Metallurgy, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China.
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Department of Physics, College of Science, University of Bisha P.O. Box 551 Bisha 61922 Saudi Arabia.
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School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hefei University of Technology Hefei 230009 China
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Institute of Nuclear Physics, Almaty 050032, Kazakhstan.
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