Spin Polarization Induced by Atomic Strain of MBene Promotes the ·O Production for Groundwater Disinfection

Overview

Journal Nat Commun

Specialty Biology

Date 2025 Jan 2

PMID 39747146

Authors

Zhaoli Liu

Wenzhe Gao

Lizhi Liu

Yixuan Gao

Cui Zhang

Long Chen

Fan Lv

Jiafeng Xi

Ting Du

Linpin Luo

Junchen Zhuo

Wentao Zhang

Yanwei Ji

Yizhong Shen

Wen Liu

Jianlong Wang

Mingchuan Luo

Shaojun Guo

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Abstract

Superbugs in groundwater are posing severe health risks through waterborne pathways. An emerging approach for green disinfection lies at photocatalysis, which levers the locally generated superoxide radical (·O) for neutralization. However, the spin-forbidden feature of O hinders the photocatalytic generation of active ·O, and thus greatly limited the disinfection efficiency, especially for real groundwater with a low dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration. Herein, we report a class of strained MoBT MBene (MB) with enhanced adsorption/activation of molecular O for photocatalytic disinfection, and find the strain induced spin polarization of InS/MoBT (IS/MB) can facilitate the spin-orbit hybridization of Mo sites and O to overcome the spin-forbidden of O, which results in a 16.59-fold increase in ·O photocatalytic production in low DO condition (2.46 mg L). In particular, we demonstrate an InS/MoBT (50 mg)-based continuous-flow-disinfection system stably operates over 62 h and collects 37.2 L bacteria-free groundwater, which represents state-of-the-art photodisinfection materials for groundwater disinfection. Most importantly, the disinfection capacity of the continuous-flow-disinfection system is 25 times higher than that of commercial sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl), suggesting the practical potential for groundwater purification.

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