Multifunctional property exploration: Bi₄O₅I₂ with high visible light photocatalytic performance and a large nonlinear optical effect.

ABSTRACT: Exploration of the versatility of materials is very important for increasing the utilization of materials. Herein, we successfully prepared Bi₄O₅I₂ powders via a facile solvothermal method. The Bi₄O₅I₂ photocatalyst exhibited significantly higher photocatalytic activity as compared to the common BiOI photocatalyst in the degradation of methyl orange, methylene blue and rhodamine B under visible light irradiation. Especially, for the degradation of methyl orange, the photocatalytic activity of Bi₄O₅I₂ is about 10 times that of BiOI. Moreover, Bi₄O₅I₂ exhibits an extremely high second harmonic generation response of about 20 × KDP (the benchmark) estimate

SUBMITTER: Yin R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9060602 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature