Enhanced Photocatalytic Reduction of CO to CO over BiOBr Assisted by Phenolic Resin-based Activated Carbon Spheres

Overview

Journal RSC Adv

Publisher Royal Society of Chemistry

Specialty Chemistry

Date 2022 May 6

PMID 35519351

Authors

Kangli Liu

Xiaochao Zhang

Changming Zhang

Guangmin Ren

Zhanfeng Zheng

Zhiping Lv

Caimei Fan

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Abstract

Photocatalytic reduction of CO using solar energy to decrease CO emission is a promising clean renewable fuel production technology. Recently, Bi-based semiconductors with excellent photocatalytic activity and carbon-based carriers with large specific surface areas and strong CO adsorption capacity have attracted extensive attention. In this study, activated carbon spheres (ACSs) were obtained carbonization and steam activation of phenolic resin-based carbon spheres at 850 °C synthesized by suspension polymerization. Then, the BiOBr/ACSs sample was successfully prepared a simple impregnation method. The as-prepared samples were characterized by XRD, SEM, EDX, DRS, PL, EIS, XPS, BET, CO adsorption isotherm and CO-TPD. The BiOBr and BiOBr/ACSs samples exhibited high CO selectivity for photocatalytic CO reduction, and BiOBr/ACSs achieved a rather higher photocatalytic activity (23.74 μmol g h) than BiOBr (2.39 μmol g h) under simulated sunlight irradiation. Moreover, the analysis of the obtained results indicates that in this photocatalyst system, due to their higher micropore surface area and larger micropore volume, ACSs provide enough physical adsorption sites for CO adsorption, and the intrinsic structure of ACSs can offer effective electron transfer ability for a fast and efficient separation of photo-induced electron-hole pairs. Finally, a possible enhanced photocatalytic mechanism of BiOBr/ACSs was investigated and proposed. Our findings should provide new and important research ideas for the construction of highly efficient photocatalyst systems for the reduction of CO to solar fuels and chemicals.

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