Facile fabrication of a novel BiPO₄ phase junction with enhanced photocatalytic performance towards aniline blue degradation.

ABSTRACT: A novel BiPO₄ photocatalyst has been fabricated via a facile precipitation route using dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) as a solvent. The physical and chemical properties of the BiPO₄ photocatalyst material were analyzed using XRD, Rietveld refinements XRD, FE-SEM, TEM, HR-TEM, EDS, XPS, FT-IR, Raman spectra, UV-Vis (DRS), and PL. The results confirm that hexagonal phase BiPO₄ (HBIP) nanorods were successfully synthesized. FE-SEM images reveal that the addition of surfactant "CTAB" during preparation can control the surface morphology of BiPO₄. The Rietveld refinement technique revealed the formation of a monazite monoclinic (nMBIP) and monoclinic (mMBIP) phase junction resulting from the calcination of HBIP at 500 °C. The photocatalytic behavior

SUBMITTER: Azzam AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9064578 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature