Sun, Songmei and Wang, Wenzhong and Jiang, Dong and Zhang, Ling and Li, Xiaoman and Yali, Zheng and An, Qi (2014) Bi_2WO_6 quantum dot-intercalated ultrathin montmorillonite nanostructure and its enhanced photocatalytic performance. Nano Research, 7 (10). pp. 1497-1506. ISSN 1998-0124. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20141114-082552026
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Abstract
The kinetic competition between electron-hole recombination and water oxidation is a key limitation for the development of efficient solar water splitting materials. In this study, we present a solution for solving this challenge by constructing a quantum dot-intercalated nanostructure. For the first time, we show the interlayer charge of the intercalated nanostructure can significantly inhibit the electron-hole recombination in photocatalysis. For Bi_2WO_6 quantum dots (QDs) intercalated in a montmorillonite (MMT) nanostructure as an example, the average lifetime of the photogenerated charge carriers was increased from 3.06 μs to 18.8 μs by constructing the intercalated nanostructure. The increased lifetime markedly improved the photocatalytic performance of Bi_2WO_6 both in solar water oxidation and environmental purification. This work not only provides a method to produce QD-intercalated ultrathin nanostructures but also a general route to design efficient semiconductor-based photoconversion materials for solar fuel generation and environmental purification.
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Alternate Title: | Bi2WO6 quantum dot-intercalated ultrathin montmorillonite nanostructure and its enhanced photocatalytic performance | |||||||||||||||
Additional Information: | © 2014 Tsinghua University Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Received: 31 March 2014. Revised: 23 May 2014. Accepted: 9 June 2014. This work was financially supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant Nos. 2010CB933503, 2013CB933203), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51102262, 51272269), and the Science Foundation for Youth Scholars of the State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructures (Grant No. SKL201204). | |||||||||||||||
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Subject Keywords: | photocatalysis, lifetime, ammonia degradation, water oxidation, montmorillonite exfoliation | |||||||||||||||
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Official Citation: | Sun, S., Wang, W., Jiang, D. et al. Nano Res. (2014) 7: 1497. doi:10.1007/s12274-014-0511-2 | |||||||||||||||
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Deposited By: | Ruth Sustaita | |||||||||||||||
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