Application of polyoxometalates in photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants
Organic pollutants are highly toxic, accumulative, and difficult to degrade or eliminate. As a low-cost, high-efficiency and energy-saving environmental purification technology, photocatalytic technology has shown great advantages in solving increasingly serious environmental pollution problems. The...
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| Published in: | Nanoscale advances Vol. 3; no. 16; pp. 4646 - 4658 |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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10-08-2021
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| Summary: | Organic pollutants are highly toxic, accumulative, and difficult to degrade or eliminate. As a low-cost, high-efficiency and energy-saving environmental purification technology, photocatalytic technology has shown great advantages in solving increasingly serious environmental pollution problems. The development of efficient and durable photocatalysts for the degradation of organic pollutants is the key to the extensive application of photocatalysis technology. Polyoxometalates (POMs) are a kind of discrete metal-oxide clusters with unique photo/electric properties which have shown promising applications in photocatalytic degradation. This review summarizes the recent advances in the design and synthesis of POM-based photocatalysts, as well as their application in the degradation of organic dyes, pesticides and other pollutants. In-depth perspective views are also proposed in this review.
This review article summarizes polyoxometalate-based photocatalysts and their application in degradation of organic pollutants from the viewpoints of structural design and mechanism study. |
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| Bibliography: | Jin Lan is an undergraduate student in the Institute of POM-based Materials, Hubei University of Technology (HBUT), and his major is Chemical Engineering and Technology. He has been engaged in the synthesis of POM-based inorganic-organic hybrid materials since he entered HBUT in 2020. Currently, his research work mainly focuses on POM-based molecules and/or nanocomposites and their application in photocatalytic degradation. Prof. Zicheng Xiao received his bachelor's and PhD degrees in physical chemistry from Peking University (supervisor: Prof. Yuan Wang). Later, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow in Tsinghua University (supervisor: Prof. Yongge Wei) and worked as a visiting scholar in Lehigh University (supervisor: Prof. Tianbo Liu). Now, he is working in the Institute of POM-based Materials, HBUT, and his current research focuses on POM-based hybrid materials, organic functionalization, single crystal X-ray diffraction, and catalysis. Bo Huang received his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and technology from the Institute of POM-based Materials, HBUT. Later, he received his master's degree in physical chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Peng Jiang and Minghui Liang from the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). His research work mainly focuses on nanomaterials and inorganic-organic hybrid materials, and their applications in energy storage and conversion. Prof. Pingfan Wu, the founder of the Institute of POM-based Materials in HBUT, obtained her bachelor's and master's degrees from Central China Normal University. She joined HBUT in 2003 and engaged in the field of POMs. She has devoted herself to POM research for more than ten years, and is currently committed to the synthetic development and functional application of POM derivatives. Yu Wang received her bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and technology in 2018 from Zhengzhou University of Light Industry. Presently, she is a third year postgraduate student at HBUT and her major is applied chemistry. Her recent research involves organic-inorganic functionalized POM materials, and she mainly focuses on synthesis and performance studies of these compounds including the HER, OER, and biological activities. These authors contributed equally to this work. |
| ISSN: | 2516-0230 2516-0230 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/d1na00408e |