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Controlled synthesis and photocatalytic performance of waxberry-like Ni11(HPO3)8(OH)6 microballs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2017

Yu Zhang ,
Zhijian Peng  and
Xiuli Fu
Yu Zhang
Affiliation:
School of Engineering and Technology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, People’s Republic of China; and State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, and School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, People’s Republic of China
Zhijian Peng*
Affiliation:
School of Engineering and Technology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, People’s Republic of China
Xiuli Fu*
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, and School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, People’s Republic of China
*
a) Address all correspondence to these authors. e-mail: pengzhijian@cugb.edu.cn
b) e-mail: xiulifu@bupt.edu.cn
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Abstract

Due to the increasingly severe environmental pollution problems, the development of semiconductor photocatalysts is being extensively carried out because they have exhibited high activities for the degradation of many organic and inorganic pollutants. In this study, waxberry-like Ni11(HPO3)8(OH)6 microball photocatalysts with a diameter of 10–20 μm have been successfully synthesized via a solvothermal route by using NiSO4 as a Ni-source and NaH2PO2 as a P-source in a mixture of ethylene glycol and water under the optimized conditions with a Ni:P molar ratio of 1:2 at 200 °C for 16 h. The as-prepared photocatalysts were characterized by powder X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray analysis, Brunauer–Emmett–Teller N2 adsorption, zeta potential, ultraviolet-visible (UV–vis) absorption, and photocatalysis tests. The decolourization of organic dyes, methylene blue and rhodamine B, under ultraviolet light over the as-prepared products reveals an excellent photocatalytic performance due to the good absorption for ultraviolet light.

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Ni11(HPO3)8(OH)6waxberry-like microballhydrothermal synthesisphotocatalysis
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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 32 , Issue 14 , 28 July 2017 , pp. 2819 - 2828
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2017 

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Contributing Editor: Akira Nakajima

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