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Fabrication of GO-TiO2/(Ca,Y)F2:Tm,Yb composites with high-efficiency optical driving photocatalytic activity for degradation of organic dyes and bacteriostasis

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Development of photocatalytic materials able to profit from the whole spectrum of sun for efficient organic pollution removal and bacterial elimination is a fascinating strategy in environmental engineering. In current work, GO-TiO2/(Ca,Y)F2:Tm,Yb, a full-spectrum composite photocatalyst, was prepared via hydrothermal processing with TiO2/(Ca,Y)F2:Tm,Yb particles deposited on the surface of graphene oxide (GO). The surface properties of GO-TiO2/(Ca,Y)F2:Tm,Yb were characterized using various characterization techniques including X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) surface area analyzer. Besides, ultraviolet–visible (UV–Vis) diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, electron spin resonance (ESR) and other methods were used to systematically explore the photocatalytic mechanism of GO enhancement of TiO2/(Ca,Y)F2:Tm,Yb. In photocatalytic degradation study, the degradation rate of methyl orange (MO) was improved by 40% when GO was added into the TiO2/(Ca,Y)F2:Tm,Yb system. In addition, the presence of GO also improves the antibacterial ability of TiO2/(Ca,Y)F2:Tm,Yb against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. All results reveal high efficacy of GO-TiO2/(Ca,Y)F2:Tm,Yb under full spectrum light irradiation, in which (Ca,Y)F2:Tm,Yb and TiO2 can improve its utilization of full spectrum sunlight, and GO can enhance adsorption ability of dye and electron–hole pair differentiation ability of TiO2/(Ca,Y)F2:Tm,Yb.

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在环境工程中, 开发能够利用全光谱的光催化材料实现有机污染物和细菌的高效去除具有重要意义。本论文采用水热法在氧化石墨烯 (GO) 表面沉积TiO2 /(Ca,Y)F2:Tm,Yb粒子, 制备了一种全光谱复合光催化剂GO-TiO2/(Ca,Y)F2:Tm,Yb。采用X射线衍射(XRD)、扫描电子显微镜(SEM)、X射线光电子能谱仪(XPS)和BET表面积分析仪对GO-TiO2/(Ca,Y)F2:Tm,Yb的表面特性进行了表征。此外, 利用紫外-可见漫反射光谱、电子自旋共振(ESR)等方法系统探讨了GO对TiO2/(Ca,Y)F2:Tm,Yb的光催化增强机理。在光催化降解研究中, GO与TiO2/(Ca,Y)F2:Tm, Yb的复合使甲基橙 (MO) 的降解率提高了40%。此外, GO的存在也提高了TiO2/(Ca,Y)F2:Tm, Yb对大肠杆菌和金黄色葡萄球菌的抗菌能力。所有结果显示GO-TiO2 / (Ca, Y) F2: Tm, Yb材料在全光谱光线照射下具有高效率, 其中(Ca, Y) F2: Tm, Yb, TiO2可以提高材料对全光谱阳光的利用率, 而GO能增强TiO2/(Ca,Y)F2:Tm,Yb对染料的吸附能力和电子空穴对的分化能力。

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This work was financially supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2020YFC1107403), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51771069) and the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province of China (No. E2020202028).

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  1. School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, 300401, China

    Hua Guo, An Kang & Xiao-Yan Zhao

  2. Tianjin Juncheng Dentistry Clinic Co. LTD, Tianjin, 300090, China

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  3. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, 300000, China

    Xian-Rui Zou, Hong-Shui Wang & Huan Zhou

  4. Institute of Biophysics, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, 300401, China

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Guo, H., Li, J., Zou, XR. et al. Fabrication of GO-TiO2/(Ca,Y)F2:Tm,Yb composites with high-efficiency optical driving photocatalytic activity for degradation of organic dyes and bacteriostasis. Rare Met. 41, 650–662 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12598-021-01831-z

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