In Situ Carbon Homogeneous Doping on Ultrathin Bismuth Molybdate: A Dual‐Purpose Strategy for Efficient Molecular Oxygen Activation |
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Authors: | Shengyao Wang Xing Ding Xuehao Zhang Hong Pang Xiao Hai Guangming Zhan Wei Zhou Hui Song Lizhi Zhang Hao Chen Jinhua Ye |
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Affiliation: | 1. College of Science, Key Laboratory of Environment Correlative Dietology of Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P. R. China;2. International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI‐MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan;3. Graduate School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan;4. Key Laboratory of Pesticide and Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, Institute of Environmental Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, P. R. China;5. TU‐NIMS International Collaboration Laboratory, School of Material Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, P. R. China |
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Abstract: | Solar‐driven activation of molecular oxygen, which harnesses light to produce reactive oxygen species for the removal of pollutants, is the most green and low‐cost approach for environmental remediation. The energy coupling between photons, excitons, and oxygen is the crucial step in this reaction and still remains a challenge. In this study, a dual‐purpose strategy for enhanced molecular oxygen activation is established by in situ carbon homogeneous doping on ultrathin Bi2MoO6 nanosheets for the first time. The C‐doped ultrathin 2D material exhibits an enlarged bandgap straddling the electrochemical potential of O2 /?O2? and H2O /?OH, without any attenuation of light absorption. An internal electric field and shortened carrier‐transportation distance are also found in the longitude orientation of the nanosheets (001] axis), leading to a higher density of effective photogenerated carriers localized on the exposed {001} surface. As applied for the nitric oxide removal, the reactive rate over the ultrathin C‐doped Bi2MoO6 nanosheets is 4.3 times higher than that over the bulk counterparts as a result of the increasing reactive oxygen species. This new proof‐of‐concept strategy not only realizes the band structure engineering and charge transportation regulation but also paves a new way to construct highly efficient photocatalytic materials. |
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Keywords: | Bi2MoO6 C‐doping molecular oxygen activation NO removal ultrathin 2D materials |
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