TY  - JOUR
SN  - 0926-3373
PB  - Elsevier BV
VL  - 319
JF  - Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
TI  - Unsaturated Nd-Bi dual-metal sites enable efficient NIR light-driven O2 activation for water purification
Y1  - 2022/12/15/
A1  - Wang, Qiuwen
A1  - Xu, Dongyu
A1  - Dong, Yilin
A1  - Pang, Shaoxuan
A1  - Zhang, Lijun
A1  - Zhang, Guangming
A1  - Lv, Longyi
A1  - Liu, Xiaoyang
A1  - Xia, Yuguo
A1  - Campos, Luiza C
A1  - Ren, Zhijun
A1  - Wang, Pengfei
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2022.121924
N2  - Metal semiconductor catalysts with oxygen vacancies can make full use of near infrared light to active O2 for degradation of emerging pollutants. However, the surface oxygen vacancies can also become the combination center of electron-hole pairs, leading O2 cannot accept more electrons for activation, often becoming the bottleneck. In this study, by doping half-metal BiO2?x with Nd to form unsaturated Nd-Bi dual-metal sites as oxygen chemisorption and electron transfer sites, this bottleneck can be well solved. Systematic characterization results imply that Nd-Bi dual-metal sites can raise the center of the defect band to the Fermi level, which preserves the energy of photoexcited electrons. Thus, more electrons are driven to adsorbates for O2?- generation. Under liquid phase determination conditions, the modified sample achieves the reaction-rate constant for doxycycline degradation of 134.4 в 10?4 min?1, which is about 24.2 times higher than that of pristine BiO2?x under NIR irradiation.
ID  - discovery10155596
AV  - public
KW  - Nd-Bi dual-metal sites
KW  -  Photocatalysis
KW  -  Molecular oxygen activation
KW  -  NIR light
KW  -  Emerging organic pollutants
ER  -