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Efficient Organic Dyes Photodegradation Catalyzed by Nickel-Species Loaded Graphitic Carbon Nitride

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In this paper, a series of nickel-species loaded graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) nanohybrid photocatalysts were successfully fabricated via a simple thermal treatment process and characterized by XRD, FT-IR, XPS, SEM, TEM, UV–vis DRS and PL technologies. Photocatalytic tests displayed that the nanohybrids possessed remarkable photocatalytic activity for methylene blue (MB) degradation compared with pure g-C3N4 and P25 TiO2 under visible-light irradiation. Moreover, the activity can be further enhanced by adjusting the pyrolysis temperature and the amount of nickel salt. The maximal photocatalytic efficiency was achieved over the sample that pyrolysed at 650 °C with Ni content of 5% (in precursor), in which 92.1% of MB was degraded under visible light within 2 h. The present work could provide considerable reference value for the study of non-noble metal modified g-C3N4 and pollutant degredation catalysts.

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We acknowledge the financial support from the National Basic Research Program of China (2012CB933301, 2014CB648300), the Key Project of National High Technology Research of China (2011AA050526), the Ministry of Education of China (No. IRT1148), the National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, China (BM2012010), the Research Innovation Program for College Graduates of Jiangsu Province (No. SJLX15-0388), the Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD, YX03001), NUPTSF (Grant Nos. NY214181, NY215077, NY213103), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51372119, 51572126, 61136003, 61402240, 51602161, 81273409).

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Wang, Q., Zhang, J., Mao, W. et al. Efficient Organic Dyes Photodegradation Catalyzed by Nickel-Species Loaded Graphitic Carbon Nitride. J Inorg Organomet Polym 27, 1177–1189 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10904-017-0564-2

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