Facile solvothermal synthesis of cube-like Ag@AgCl: a highly efficient visible light photocatalyst
- 25 May 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Nanoscale
- Vol. 3 (7), 2931-2935
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c1nr10247h
Abstract
In this paper, a stable and highly efficient plasmonic photocatalyst, Ag@AgCl, with cube-like morphology, has been successfully prepared via a simple hydrothermal method. Using methylene dichloride as chlorine source in the synthesis can efficiently control the morphology of Ag@AgCl, due to the low release rate of chloride ions. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and UV-vis diffuse reflectance spectra were used to characterize the obtained product. The photocatalytic activity of the obtained product was evaluated by the photodegradation of methyl orange (MO) under visible light irradiation, and it was found, interestingly, that Ag@AgCl exhibits high visible light photocatalytic activity and good stability.Keywords
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