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Springer Verlag, Chinese Science Bulletin, 1(58), p. 84-91, 2012

DOI: 10.1007/s11434-012-5367-9

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Visible-light-driven Ag/Ag3PO4-based plasmonic photocatalysts: Enhanced photocatalytic performance by hybridization with graphene oxide

Journal article published in 2012 by MingShan Zhu ORCID, PengLei Chen, MingHua Liu ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

An efficient visible-light-driven plasmonic photocatalyst with regard to graphene oxide (GO) hybridized Ag/Ag3PO4 (Ag/Ag3PO4/GO) nanostructures has been facilely synthesized via a deposition-precipitation method. The synthesized nanostructures have been characterized by means of scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), X-ray diffraction (XRD), UV-vis spectra, Fourier transform infrared spectra (FT-IR), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and Raman spectra. It has been disclosed that compared with the bare Ag/Ag3PO4 nanospecies, the GO hybridized nanostructures display enhanced photocatalytic activity for the photodegradation of methyl orange pollutant under visible-light irradiation. It is suggested that the reinforced charge transfer and the suppressed recombination of electron-hole pairs in Ag/Ag3PO4/GO, the smaller size of Ag/Ag3PO4 nanospecies in Ag/Ag3PO4/GO, all of which are the consequences of the hybridization of GO, are responsible for the enhanced photocatalytic performance. The investigation might open up new opportunities to obtain highly efficient Ag3PO4-based visible-light-driven plasmonic photocatalyst for the photodegradation of organic pollutants.