Author Affiliations
1State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, China2The Center of New Energy Materials and Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, China. 3. Research Center for Environmental Science & Technology, Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China;show less
1. Photocatalytic activities of BN, BiOBr and BiOBr-BN nanocomposites for NO oxidation (a) and NO2 generation (b) under visible light irradiation
2. XRD patterns of pure BiOBr, BiOBr-BN composites (a), and pure BN (b)
3. SEM images of (a) pure BiOBr and (b) 5%BiOBr-BN, and (c) TEM, (d) HRTEM images and SAED (insert) pattern of 5%BiOBr-BN
4. FT-IR spectra of BiOBr and 5%BiOBr-BN
5. XPS spectra of BiOBr and 5% BiOBr-BN composite
6. Charge density difference of BiOBr-BN green implies “lose electrons”, yellow implies “get electrons”
7. (a) PL spectra of BiOBr and BiOBr-BN nanocomposites excited at 360 nm; (b) Transient photocurrent response for pure BiOBr and 5%BiOBr-BN
8. Nitrogen absorption-desorption isotherms of (a) BiOBr and (b) 5%BiOBr-BN
9. Optimized structure of (a) O2 and (b) NO on BiOBr; optimized structure of (c) O2 and (d) NO adsorbed on BN
10. DMPO spin-trapping ESR spectra recorded with 5%BiOBr-BN in methanol dispersion for DMPO-•O2-
S1. Schematic illustration of the formation process of BiOBr-BN composites
S2. Structure schematic of the as-prepared BiOBr-BN nanocomposites
S3. Experimental setup for photocatalytic oxidation of NO
S4. Long time test of (a) NO oxidation and (b) NO2 generation over 5%BiOBr-BN under visible light irradation
S5. SEM image of BN
S6. TEM-EDS element mappings of the as-prepared 5%BiOBr-BN
S7. XPS spectra of the BiOBr and 5%BiOBr-BN composite
S7. Model structure of BiOBr-BN (a) BN; (b) BiOBr; (c) BiOBr-BN
S9. UV-Vis diffuse reflectance spectra of BiOBr, BN and BiOBr-BN nanocomposites
| 5%BiOBr-BN | 7.5%BiOBr-BN | 10%BiOBr-BN | 12.5%BiOBr-BN |
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BiOBr/mol | 0.005 | 0.005 | 0.005 | 0.005 | BiOBr/g | 1.5244 | 1.5244 | 1.5244 | 1.5244 | BN/mol | 0.1 | 0.067 | 0.05 | 0.04 | BN/g | 2.482 | 1.6547 | 1.241 | 0.9928 | Mass percentage | 61.41% | 82.11% | 122.82% | 153.53% |
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Table 1. Contents of BiOBr-BN composites
Sample | Generation rate of NO2/% | Nitrate selectivity/% | Sample | Generation rate of NO2/% | Nitrate selectivity/% |
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5%BiOBr-BN | 6.6 | 81.5 | 12.5%BiOBr-BN | 14.8 | 64.7 | 7.5%BiOBr-BN | 9.9 | 79.8 | BiOBr | 16.4 | 36.6 | 10%BiOBr-BN | 12.2 | 82.8 | BN | 0 | 0 |
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Table 2. Oxidation selectivity of BiOBr-BN samples
Element | B | N | O | Br | Bi |
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at% | 31.68 | 22.73 | 22.07 | 12.57 | 10.95 |
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Table 3. Surface chemical composition of 5%BiOBr-BN composite