A facile way to rejuvenate Ag3PO4 as a recyclable highly efficient photocatalyst

Hua Wang; Yusong Bai; Jutong Yang; Xiufeng Lang; Jinghong Li; Lin Guo

doi:10.1002/chem.201103189

A facile way to rejuvenate Ag3PO4 as a recyclable highly efficient photocatalyst

Chemistry. 2012 Apr 27;18(18):5524-9. doi: 10.1002/chem.201103189. Epub 2012 Mar 21.

Authors

Hua Wang¹, Yusong Bai, Jutong Yang, Xiufeng Lang, Jinghong Li, Lin Guo

Affiliation

¹ Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Environment, Beihang University, Beijing, PR China.

PMID: 22438207
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201103189

Abstract

Recycling awarded the silver: Ag(3)PO(4), a highly efficient photocatalyst, decomposes to the weak photocatalyst Ag during consecutive photocatalytic cycles. A facile and very mild wet chemical oxidation method was proposed, which involves the cooperation of H(2)O(2) with Na(2)HPO(4), to rejuvenate Ag(3)PO(4) from Ag as a recyclable highly efficient photocatalyst.