Journal of Inorganic Materials ›› 2022, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (8): 865-872.DOI: 10.15541/jim20220123

Special Issue: 【能源环境】光催化降解有机分子 【信息功能】Max层状材料、MXene及其他二维材料

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Two-dimensional g-C3N4 Compositing with Ag-TiO2 as Deactivation Resistant Photocatalyst for Degradation of Gaseous Acetaldehyde

XUE Hongyun1,2(), WANG Congyu1, MAHMOOD Asad1(), YU Jiajun1,2, WANG Yan1, XIE Xiaofeng1, SUN Jing1()   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China
    2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2022-03-07 Revised:2022-04-05 Published:2022-08-20 Online:2022-04-26
  • Contact: MAHMOOD Asad. E-mail: amkhan036@yahoo.com;
    SUN Jing, professor. jingsun@mail.sic.ac.cn
  • About author:XUE Hongyun (1998-), female, Master candidate. E-mail: hyxue0310@163.com
  • Supported by:
    Key Collaborative Research Program of the Alliance of International Science Organizations(ANSO-CR-KP-2020-13);National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFE0110400);National Natural Science Foundation of China(41907303);National Natural Science Foundation of China(52072387);Shanghai Commission of Science and Technology Program(19DZ1202600);Shanghai Commission of Science and Technology Program(20DZ1204100);State Key Laboratory Director Fund of SICCAS(Y9ZC0102)

Abstract:

The photocatalysts deactivation is one of the major issues, which lowers the usefulness of photocatalytic oxidation technology for the removal of low content volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Here, we carried out a series of experiments to demonstrate that the photocatalysts stability could be significantly improved via coupling the oxide base semiconductors, i.e., TiO2 with 2D materials such as graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4). Initially, when Ag modified TiO2 (AT) was used for the gaseous acetaldehyde degradation, a robust deactivation was observed within 60 min. The AT catalyst completely lost its activity when the reaction time was extended to 400 min. On the contrary, the g-C3N4 modified AT (CAT) showed superior photocatalytic performance and improved stability (600 min). The in-situ FT-IR, PL, and photocurrent studies suggested that the accumulation of reaction intermediates in the case of AT fundamentally caused the deactivation. However, the g-C3N4 provided excessive adsorption sites for the reaction by-products which improved the stability. Additionally, the PL and ESR studies suggested that the existence of g-C3N4 improved the charge separation and production of reactive oxygen species, which facilitated the photodegradation of acetaldehyde and ultimate reaction products. This study realizes the usefulness of 2D materials for developing stable and visible light active photocatalysts for applications in sustainable VOC abatement technology.

Key words: photocatalysis, titanium dioxide, g-C3N4, deactivation-resistant, in-situ diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy

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