Effect of BiVO4 Crystalline Phases on the Photoinduced Carriers Behavior and Photocatalytic Activity

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• 作者：Haimei Fan ; Tengfei Jiang ; Haiyan Li ; Dejun Wang ; Lingling Wang ; Jiali Zhai ; Dongqing He ; Ping Wang ; Tengfeng Xie
• 刊名：The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：January 26, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：116
• 期：3
• 页码：2425-2430
• 全文大小：398K
• 年卷期：v.116,no.3(January 26, 2012)
• ISSN：1932-7455

文摘

A series of different crystalline phases BiVO₄ photocatalysts (tetragonal, monoclinic, and monoclinic/tetragonal heterophase) have been prepared by a coprecipitation and molten salt method. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) results show that an interface of intimate contact is formed in monoclinic/tetragonal heterophase and monoclinic phase is mainly on the surface of nanoparticles. Surface photovoltage (SPV) and transient photovoltage (TPV) techniques are used to further investigate the transfer process of photoinduced charge carriers. The results show that the behavior of photoinduced charges markedly depend on the crystalline phases of BiVO₄ samples, and the presence of interface in monoclinic/tetragonal heterophase provides a spatial condition for charge transfer, promotes the separation of photoinduced electron鈥揾ole pairs, and changes the migration direction of photoinduced carriers. The relationship between behavior of photoinduced charge carriers and photocatalytic activity was discussed in detail, which would provide a greater insight into the intrinsic reasons of the enhancement in photocatalytic activity.