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- - The text discusses the creation of catalysts that use renewable energy sources to address problems like environmental pollution and growing energy needs.
- - A novel technique called piezo-photocatalysis combines solar energy with natural vibrations to effectively degrade organic pollutants.
- - The study highlights the use of BiFeO/C nano composites enhanced with carbon quantum dots, which improve light absorption and reduce electron-hole recombination, resulting in a highly efficient catalyst with notable degradation rates.
Article Abstract
Designing catalysts that can effectively make use of renewable energy benefits to solve the current challenges of environmental pollution and increasing energy demands. Piezo-photocatalysis that can utilize solar energy and natural vibration-energy has emerged as a "green" technique. In this work, we fabricated BiFeO/C nano composites that can harvest solar and vibration energies and degrade organic pollutants. The incorporated carbon quantum dots bring about more efficient visible light absorbance and separation of photoinduced electron-hole pairs. The piezoelectric polarization further suppresses the recombination of photoinduced electron-hole pairs. The catalysts own higher reaction rates in piezo-photocatalysis and the BiFeO/C-0.12 shows the highest degradation efficiency (k-value of 0.0835 min).
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10831312 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultsonch.2024.106770 | DOI Listing |
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