• 文献标题:   Photocatalytic wastewater purification with simultaneous hydrogen production using MoS2 QD-decorated hierarchical assembly of ZnIn2S4 on reduced graphene oxide photocatalyst
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHANG SQ, WANG LL, LIU CB, LUO JM, CRITTENDEN J, LIU X, CAI T, YUAN JL, PEI Y, LIU YT
  • 作者关键词:   photocatalysi, wastewater purification, hydrogen production
  • 出版物名称:   WATER RESEARCH
  • ISSN:   0043-1354
  • 通讯作者地址:   Hunan Univ
  • 被引频次:   53
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.watres.2017.05.013
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

It is attractive to photocatalytically purify wastewater and simultaneously convert solar energy into clean hydrogen energy. However, it is still a challenge owing to the relatively low photocatalytic efficiency of photocatalysts. In this study, we synthesized a molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) quantum dot-decorated 3D nanoarchitecture (MoS(2)QDs) of indium zinc sulfide (ZnIn2S4) and reduced grapheme oxide (MoS(2)QDs@ZnIn2S4@RGO) photocatalyst using a simple solvothermal method. The RGO promotes the electron transfer, and the highly dispersed MoS(2)QDs provides numerous catalytic sites. The photocatalytic purification of rhodamine B (RhB), eosin Y (EY), fulvic acid (FA), methylene blue (MB) and p-nitrophenol (PNP) in simulated wastewaters were further tested. The degradation efficiencies and TOC removal were 91% and 75% for PNP, 92.2% and 72% for FA, 98.5% and 80% for MB, 98.6% and 84% for EY, and 98.8% and 88% for RhB, respectively (C-organics = 20 mg/L, C-catalyst = 1.25 g/L, t = 12 h, I-light = 3.36 x 10(-5) E L-1 s(-1)). Among these tests, the highest hydrogen production was achieved (45 mu mol) during RhB degradation. Both experimental and calculational results prove that lower LUMO (lowest unoccupied molecular orbit) level of organic molecules was available for transferring electrons to catalysts, resulting in more efficient hydrogen production. Significantly, the removal efficiencies of natural organic substances in actual river water reached 76.3e98.4%, and COD reduced from 32 to 16 mg/L with 13.8 mu mol H-2 production after 12 h. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.