Efficient removal of ammonia with a novel graphene-supported BiFeO3 as a reusable photocatalyst under visible light

doi:10.1016/S1872-2067(17)62752-9

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Graphene-supported BiFeO₃ (rG-BiFeO₃) was synthesized by the hydrothermal method and used for the efficient removal of ammonia under visible light. X-ray diffraction, transmission electron mi-croscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and ultraviolet-visible diffuse reflectance spectroscopy were conducted to characterize the rG-BiFeO₃. The specific surface area of the rG-BiFeO₃ catalyst was 48.6 m²/g, larger than that of BiFeO₃ (21.0 m²/g). When used as a heterogeneous photocatalyst, rG-BiFeO₃ achieved 91.20% degradation of a NH₃-N solution (50 mg/L) at pH=11 under visible-light irradiation in the absence of hydrogen peroxide. The degrada-tion of ammonia followed pseudo-first-order kinetics, and the catalyst retained high photocatalytic activity after seven reaction cycles. Study of the mechanism showed that the holes, superoxide ani-on radicals, and hydroxyl radicals, arising from the synergy between graphene and BiFeO₃, oxidized NH₃ directly to N₂.

Key words: Graphene-BiFeO₃, Photocatalyst, Visible light, Ammonia removal

Congyang Zou, Shouqing Liu, Zhemin Shen, Yuan Zhang, Nishan Jiang, Wenchao Ji. Efficient removal of ammonia with a novel graphene-supported BiFeO₃ as a reusable photocatalyst under visible light[J]. Chinese Journal of Catalysis, 2017, 38(1): 20-28.

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