Light Control-Induced Oxygen Vacancy Generation and In Situ Surface Heterojunction Reconstruction for Boosting CO2 Reduction
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results and Discussion
2.1. Structural Characterization and Morphological Analysis
2.2. Analysis of UV-Vis Absorption Spectra
2.3. Raman and EPR Analyses
2.4. XPS Characterization
2.5. Researches on Photocatalytic Performance and CO2 Reaction Path
2.6. Mechanism
3. Experimental Sections
3.1. Materials
3.2. Synthesis of BiOBr and Defect-Rich BiOBr Photocatalysts
3.3. Characterization
3.4. Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
Sample Availability
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Yuan, Z.; Zhu, X.; Gao, Q.; Jiang, Z. Light Control-Induced Oxygen Vacancy Generation and In Situ Surface Heterojunction Reconstruction for Boosting CO2 Reduction. Molecules 2023, 28, 4057. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules28104057
Yuan Z, Zhu X, Gao Q, Jiang Z. Light Control-Induced Oxygen Vacancy Generation and In Situ Surface Heterojunction Reconstruction for Boosting CO2 Reduction. Molecules. 2023; 28(10):4057. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules28104057
Chicago/Turabian StyleYuan, Zhimin, Xianglin Zhu, Qichao Gao, and Zaiyong Jiang. 2023. "Light Control-Induced Oxygen Vacancy Generation and In Situ Surface Heterojunction Reconstruction for Boosting CO2 Reduction" Molecules 28, no. 10: 4057. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules28104057