Abstract
Layered compound/CdS nanocomposites incorporating CdS pillars in the interlayer of layered compounds such as hectorite, H 2Ti 4O 9 and H 4Nb 6O 17 were prepared by the stepwise ion exchange reactions of the layered compounds with C 3H 7NH 3 + and Cd 2+ followed by the reaction with H 2S gas. The pillar height was less than 1 nm and the band gap energy was slightly larger than that of normal crystalline CdS. Although the host layered compounds were insulators or wide band gap semiconductors, CdS pillared layered compounds showed photocatalytic activity under visible light irradiation. Nitrate ion was photochemically reduced to nitrite, nitrogen and ammonia by irradiating visible light ( λ>400 m) from a high pressure mercury lamp to nitrate solution containing H 2Ti 4O 9/CdS and H 4Nb 6O 17/CdS nanocomposites in the presence of a sacrificial hole acceptor such as methanol, whereas no photoreduction of nitrate proceeded in the presence of unsupported CdS and hectorite/CdS nanocomposite, indicating that the incorporation of CdS pillars in the interlayer of a semiconducting layered compound such as H 2Ti 4O 9 and H 4Nb 6O 17 was much more efficient in enhancing the nitrate reduction activity than when an insulator such as hectorite was used.
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