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In this study, a novel method combining microplate fluorescence imaging (FI) and high-throughput screening (HTS) technology was applied to screen and evaluate the multicomponent metal (Zn, Cd, Ni) sulfides-modified g-C3N4 with high-activity photocatalytic performance. Glass screen printing was creatively used in preparing a photocatalytic reaction microplate containing 225 independent micro-reaction chambers (μRCs) as experiment carriers. A photocatalyst chip comprising 225 ZnxCdyNi1−x−yS/g-C3N4 multicomponent photocatalysts was made via chemical ink-jet printing (IJP) technology, at last 23 high-efficiency M3S/g-C3N4were screened out from the photocatalyst chip by the optical density (OD) method.
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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 50309011), the Research Project of Shaanxi Province (2011K17-03-06) and the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars (08501041585).
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Bi, S., Liu, F., Wang, W. et al. High-Throughput Screening of Multimetal Sulfides-Modified g-C3N4 for Degradation of Organic Contaminations Based on Ink-Jet Printing (IJP) Technology. Catal Lett 150, 1650–1658 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-019-03067-0
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