Construction of S-Scheme BiVO4/Bi2O2S Heterojunction for Highly Effective Photocatalysis of Antibiotic Pollutants

Dongdong Chen, Siting Hu, Zhenzhen Jia, Yang Zhang, Bo Zhang, Shasha Liu, Xiang Li · 2025

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Antibiotic residues in wastewater shrug off ordinary treatment, so chemists recruit light. Dongdong Chen and co-authors join two bismuth compounds into an S-scheme heterojunction, rods of one on sheets of the other, designed so light-born charges separate instead of canceling. Against tetracycline under visible light, the best blend destroyed nearly eighty-three percent in ninety minutes.

That is roughly double either ingredient alone, at triple the reaction speed. Better light absorption and charge handling explain the gain, confirmed by a battery of measurements. Photocatalysts like this aim at the pollutants that biology-based plants let slip.

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CREATORDongdong Chen, Siting Hu, Zhenzhen Jia, Yang Zhang, Bo Zhang, Shasha Liu, Xiang Li
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE37 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC12787738

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