Photodegradation of refractory organic compounds by Cu2O@ZnO composite photocatalyst
CHAI Qing-wen1, LÜ yan1, ZHANG Zhou1, LI Wei1, LIU Fang1,2, Wang Yong-qiang1,2, LIU Chun-shuang1,2
1. College of Chemical Engineering, China University of Petroleum(East China), Qingdao 266580, China;
2. State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Pollution Control and Treatment, China University of Petroleum(Beijing), Beijing 102206, China
Cu2O@ZnO composite photocatalyst was successfully prepared by improved impregnation-reduction-air oxidation method, and the photocatalytic activity and degradation mechanism of the Cu2O@ZnO was investigated by the degradation of two different chemical pollutants (p-nitrophenol (PNP) and polyacrylamide (PAM)). Cu2O@ZnO composite photocatalyst expressed the best photocatalytic degradation performance under the simulated sunlight when the molar ratio of copper to zinc was 0.15, the photocatalytic degradation rates of p-nitrophenol and polyacrylamide arrived at 98.2% and 99.7%, respectively. The results of X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), photoluminescence spectroscopy (PL), ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) absorption spectroscopy and so on showed that Cu2O and ZnO formed type Ⅱ heterojunction, then the recombination of photogenerated electron hole pairs was inhibited effectively. Superoxide radicals and holes were the main active species by free radical trapping experiments, and the photocatalyst still expressed high photocatalytic activity after four cycles of reaction.
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