Abstract
Emerging S-scheme heterojunction photocatalysts endowed with efficient charge separation and strong redox capacity have stimulated wide interests in dealing with environmental issues nowadays. In this work, we firstly fabricated the oxygen vacancy modified ZrTiO4-x nanocrystals, which was further combined with AgI to build the defective S-scheme AgI/ZrTiO4-x heterojunctions for visible-light photocatalytic norfloxacin degradation. The synthesized ZrTiO4-x nanocrystals and AgI/ZrTiO4-x heterojunctions displayed remarkably boosted norfloxacin degradation performance under visible-light irradiation. The reaction rate constant of the optimized AgI/ZrTiO4-x-5% heterojunction is as high as 0.01419 min−1, which is approximately 43.35 times that of AgI and 7.93 times that of ZrTiO4-x nanocrystals, and far superior to those of commercial TiO2 and commercial ZrO2. The high-performance photocatalytic norfloxacin degradation could be mainly attributed to the formation of S-scheme charge transfer pathways and oxygen vacancy defects. More significantly, AgI/ZrTiO4-x could also realize the effective photo-decomposition of other emerging pollutants. Finally, the visible-light photocatalytic performance and photocatalysis mechanism were investigated.
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