Exploration of irradiation intensity dependent external in-band quantum yield for ZnO and CuO/ZnO photocatalysts
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Kaiyi Luo, Wenyu Hu, Jiaxuan Wei, Qiuping Zhang, Zhonghao Wu, Dongyang Li, Feng Miao, Yi Huang, Min Xu, Jian Ma, Gang Chen, Xudong Cui, Pierre Ruterana
Decorating metal oxides with wide band-gap semiconductor nano-particles constitute an important approach for synthesizing nano-photocatalysts, where the photocatalytic activity is attributed to the band diagram related effective charge separation and external in-band quantum yield (EIQY). However, up to now, the correlation between the irradiation intensity and the functionalization of the in-band quantum yield has not yet been explained. In this work, by investigating the photocatalytic activity of ZnO and CuO/ZnO (CZO) nano-photocatalysts under various irradiative intensities, we show that the effective charge separation in the CuO/ZnO band alignment is sensitive to weak illumination, while ZnO exhibits a competitive photocatalytic activity with CZO under strong illumination. As a consequence, by modifying the irradiation intensity, the intrinsic ZnO can achieve a similar photocatalytic activity to that of metal oxide decorated ZnO. Besides, the optimal photocatalytic activity of CZO is found to be reachable by manipulating the pollutant concentration.
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