Issue 72, 2022

Regulation of coordination and doping environment via target molecular transformation for boosting selective photocatalytic ability

Abstract

Here, a novel transformed CdO with low coordination and N doping environment was simply synthesized through the involvement of the target molecule tetracycline (TC). The results showed that the shedding of surface hydroxyl groups led to a low coordination environment, and N doping formed a new doping energy level, which increased the charge density and promoted the migration and separation of photo-generated carriers. Its photocatalytic performance was 4.32 times higher than that of hydroxy-rich CdO and the selectivity coefficient was 4.8. Combined with theoretical calculation and in situ Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared (ATR-FTIR) analysis, the significant improvement of selectivity was due to the interaction of the doped N atom with the methyl carbon in TC. This work provided a new idea for the simultaneous construction of low coordination environment and N-doped materials for efficient selective photocatalysis.

Graphical abstract: Regulation of coordination and doping environment via target molecular transformation for boosting selective photocatalytic ability

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
15 Jun 2022
Accepted
11 Aug 2022
First published
11 Aug 2022

Chem. Commun., 2022,58, 10036-10039

Regulation of coordination and doping environment via target molecular transformation for boosting selective photocatalytic ability

G. Zhou, Y. Cheng, Z. Yu, X. Liu, D. Chen, J. Wang, Y. Hang, Y. Xu, C. Li and Z. Lu, Chem. Commun., 2022, 58, 10036 DOI: 10.1039/D2CC03373A

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