Construction of iodine vacancy-rich BiOI/Ag@AgI Z-scheme heterojunction photocatalysts for visible-light-driven tetracycline degradation: Transformation pathways and mechanism insight

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 349, Issue , 2018, Pages 808-821

  Yang, Yang ^a   Zeng, Zhuotong ^b   Zhang, Chen ^a   Huang, Danlian ^a   Zeng, Guangming ^a,b   Xiao, Rong ^b   Lai, Cui ^a   Zhou, Chengyun ^a   Guo, Hai ^a   Xue, Wenjing ^a   Cheng, Min ^a   Wang, Wenjun ^a   Wang, Jiajia ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ag@AgI; Deficient BiOI; Tetracycline degradation; Transformation pathway; Visible light photocatalysis

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; IODINE; IRRADIATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; PHOTODEGRADATION; SILVER HALIDES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

DEFICIENT BIOI; EXCITATION-EMISSION MATRIX FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPIES; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY COUPLED WITH TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; TRANSFORMATION PATHWAYS; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION; VISIBLE-LIGHT PHOTOCATALYSIS;

LIGHT;

EID: 85047569982     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2018.05.093     Document Type: Article

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