Abstract
Carbon-coated W18O49 powders were prepared from the mixture of para-ammonium tungstate with poly(vinyl alcohol) by heat treatment in inert atmosphere at a temperature between 750 and 900°C for 1h. The synthesized W18O49 crystals had prismatic morphology in small size, less than 0.5μm in diameter and about 1μm in length. Carbon-coated W18O49 was shown to have photoactivity under visible light irradiation by comparing the concentration changes of methylene blue, phenol and dimethylsulfoxide with time under the irradiation of visible light to that in the dark. Photoactivity of W18O49 was supposed to be due to the formation of OH radicals on the basis of the degradation of dimethylsulfoxide, its quantitative transformation to methanesulfonic acid. Carbon coating seemed to have various roles: to reduce WO3 to W18O49, to inhibit the sintering and crystal growth of W18O49 to keep them small size, and also to concentrate pollutants around W18O49 crystal by adsorption.
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