Microwave-assisted solvothermal synthesis of novel hierarchical BiOI/rGO composites for efficient photocatalytic degardation of organic pollutants

Abstract

In the present paper, a novel composite of BiOI/rGO with excellent visible-light photocatalytic activity was successfully fabricated via very different simple, fast and mild rapid microwave hydrothermal method. The BiOI/rGO −1(BG-1) was donated as a simple chemical mechanical and the BiOI/rGO −2(BG-2) was donated as one-step rapid microwave hydrothermal method. The BG-1 were composed of the BiOI microspheres with a diameter of about 1μm and mixed heterogeneously with graphene. While, the BG-2 were consist of the BiOI nanoplates with the thickness of approximately 20nm dispersed heterogeneously on the surface of rGO. The degradation of 40mg/L methylene blue (MB) and 20mg/L levofloxacin (LEV) under visible light irradiation can reach about 11 and 3 times than that of P25, respectively. Furthermore, the reactive species of hole was determined to dominant the photodegradation process. The intensive photocatlytic could ascribe to more effective electron transportation and separations, this conclusion was different with other studies. A possible photocatalytic mechanism of BG-2 was also proposed.