Alkylammonium thiostannate inorganic/organic hybrids as high-performance photocatalysts with a decoupled adsorption-photodegradation mechanism.

ABSTRACT: For traditional photocatalysts, the adsorption and successive surface reaction constitute a coupled and integrated process, owing to the limited number of catalytic active centres available. An attempt to boost the photocatalytic performance to optimize the adsorption and surface reaction process may be performed by exploring various photocatalyst infrastructures. Herein, we use a facile solvothermal method to synthesize a series of layered alkylammonium thiostannate hybrids, namely (baH)₂Sn₃S₇, (haH)₂Sn₃S₇ and (oaH)₂Sn₃S₇ (ba = butylamine, ha = hexylamine, oa = octylamine). The hybrids showed broad UV-visible light absorption with appropriate band gaps. The inorganic/organic amphiphilic infr

SUBMITTER: Hao X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9064323 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature