Sustainable synthesis of highly efficient sunlight-driven Ag embedded AgCl photocatalysts
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Shen, Z.
Liu, B.
Pareek, V.
Wang, S.
Li, X.
Liu, Lihong
Liu, S.
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2015Type
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Shen, Z. and Liu, B. and Pareek, V. and Wang, S. and Li, X. and Liu, L. and Liu, S. 2015. Sustainable synthesis of highly efficient sunlight-driven Ag embedded AgCl photocatalysts. RSC Advances. 5 (98): pp. 80488-80495.
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RSC Advances
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Plasmonic silver embedded silver chloride (Ag@AgCl) nano-photocatalysts were synthesized in a microbe-free aqueous lysogeny broth (Miller) solution, at room temperature with 5 min sunlight exposure. The nanohybrids were formed by in situ photoreduction and photo-accelerated ripening of AgCl colloids, promoted by the attached biomolecular ligands. Compared with commercial TiO2, the biogenic Ag@AgCl nanocomposites demonstrate higher photocatalytic activity towards decomposition of organic dye solution under solar light with excellent photocatalytic stability.