One-pot sonochemical synthesis of 3D flower-like hierarchical AgCl microsphere with enhanced photocatalytic activity.

One-pot sonochemical synthesis of 3D flower-like hierarchical AgCl microsphere with enhanced photocatalytic activity. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2019 Jul 13;: Authors: Maimaitizi H, Kadeer K, Reheman A, Talifu D, Tursun Y, Abulizi A Abstract A highly uniform 3D flower-like hierarchical AgCl microsphere was prepared by sonochemical method with the existence of β-dextrin. The 3D flower-like hierarchical structure can be ascribed to the existence of β-dextrin, which provides nucleation sites for the growth of nanosheets because of the strong interaction between β-dextrin and Ag+. The 3D flower-like hierarchical AgCl microspheres were assembled by numerous interleaving nanosheet petals with small thickness. Benefiting from the unique structural features, the as-prepared 3D flower-like hierarchical AgCl microsphere exhibited higher degradation efficiency with degrading 98.17% of methylene blue (MB) and 88.50% of tetracycline (TC) within 40 min, which were both remarkably higher than those of irregular AgCl under visible light irradiation. Besides, the photocatalytic degradation rate constant of 3D flower-like hierarchical AgCl microsphere (0.063 min-1) for MB was 3.94 times higher than that of irregular AgCl (0.016 min-1). Moreover, a possible mechanism for the formation and excellent photocatalytic performance of 3D flower-like hierarchical AgCl microsphere was also proposed. PMID: 31302891 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - Category: Environmental Health Authors: Tags: Environ Sci Pollut Res Int Source Type: research