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Enhanced Photocatalytic Degradation and Antibacterial Performance by Cu2O/ZIF-8/AgBr Composites Under Visible Light

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In this study, double heterojunction Cu2O/ZIF-8/AgBr photocatalysts were fabricated through an in situ growth method. The photocatalytic degradation efficiency of the composite photocatalyst for oxytetracycline (OTC), tetracycline hydrochloride (TC-HCl) and tetracycline (TC) is obviously higher than that of the pure Cu2O, ZIF-8 and AgBr. The Cu2O/ZIF-8/20wtAgBr composite material can effectively inactivate E.coli under visible light. The importance of ·O2– and ·OH in the photocatalytic process had been verified in the active species trapping experiment and electron spin resonance spectroscopy (ESR). Through transient photocurrent and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), it could be known that the double type-I heterojunction system significantly improved the efficiency of charge transfer and separation. The novel Cu2O/ZIF-8/20wtAgBr composite material is expected to become a promising candidate photocatalyst for environmental applications.

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Novel Cu2O/ZIF-8/AgBr composites were fabricated to achieve efficient antibiotics degradation and effective E.coli inactivation under visiable light.

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The authors sincerely acknowledge financial supports from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 22075032).

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  1. School of Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, 221116, China

    Xiongjun Yuan

  2. School of Environmental and Safety Engineering, Changzhou University, Jiangsu, 213164, China

    Sheng Feng, Yun Zhou, Wei Wu, Yucheng Zhou, Zhiwei Ye, Xiaojun Dai & Yang Wang

  3. Changzhou Environmental Monitoring Center of Jiangsu Province, Changzhou, China

    Xuemei Duan

  4. CAS Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Beijing Key Laboratory of Ionic Liquids Clean Process, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    Wei Zheng

  5. School of Future Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Wei Zheng

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XY: Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Investigation, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing—original draft. SF: Resources, Validation, Writing—review & editing, Supervision. YZ: Investigation, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing—original draft. XD: Resources, Supervision. WZ: Writing—review & editing, Supervision. WW: Investigation. YZ: Writing—review & editing. ZY: Data curation. XD: Formal analysis. YW: Data curation.

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Yuan, X., Feng, S., Zhou, Y. et al. Enhanced Photocatalytic Degradation and Antibacterial Performance by Cu2O/ZIF-8/AgBr Composites Under Visible Light. Catal Lett 153, 3256–3269 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-022-04145-6

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