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Preparation and Performance of Ag3PO4/Ag2S/g-C3N4 Composite Photocatalyst
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DENG Jun-Yang School of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan 430068, China  
WANG Jie School of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan 430068, China  
ZHU Si-Long School of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan 430068, China  
NIE Long-Hui School of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan 430068, China nielonghui@mail.hbut.edu.cn 
Abstract: Ag3PO4/Ag2S/g-C3N4 composite photocatalysts were successfully prepared by a deposition-ion exchanged combined method. And the obtained samples were characterized by X-ray powder diffractometer (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM), transmission electron microscope (TEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), N2 adsorption and desorption isotherms, UV-visible diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, fluorescence spectrophotometry and so on. The catalytic activity and stability of the catalysts were evaluated by degradation of rhodamine B under visible light. The effect of molar ratio of sodium sulfide to silver phosphate (nNa2S/nAg3PO4) on the photocatalytic performance of the silver phosphate was studied. In addition, the photocatalytic mechanism was also investigated. The results show that, with the increase of nNa2S/nAg3PO4, the activity of the obtained composite catalytic material increased firstly and then decreased. When nNa2S/nAg3PO4 was 1.5%, the obtained ASC1.5 catalyst could completely degrade rhodamine B within 40 min under visible light irradiation, and also maintained high activity after five-cycle use. Compared with single silver phosphate, the activity and stability of Ag3PO4/Ag2S/g-C3N4 composite photocatalytic materials were significantly improved, which was mainly attributed to the increase of surface area and the presence of porous structure that enhanced separating efficiency of electron-hole pairs. The study of photocatalytic mechanism over the composite catalyst have shown that h+, ·O2- and ·OH were the main active species in the photocatalytic process. The order of the role of the above three species was:h+ > ·O2- > ·OH.
Keywords: Ag3PO4  g-C3N4  Ag2S  composite catalyst  photocatalysis  visible light
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DENG Jun-Yang,WANG Jie,ZHU Si-Long,NIE Long-Hui.Preparation and Performance of Ag3PO4/Ag2S/g-C3N4 Composite Photocatalyst[J].Chinese Journal of Inorganic Chemistry,2019,35(6):955-964.
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