Preparation of Au-BiVO4 heterogeneous nanostructures as highly efficient visible-light photocatalysts

• Main Authors: Cao, Shao-Wen, Yin, Zhen, Barber, James, Boey, Freddy Yin Chiang, Loo, Say Chye Joachim, Xue, Can
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99790; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7684
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Au-BiVO4 heterogeneous nanostructures have been successfully prepared through in situ growth of gold nanoparticles on BiVO4 microtubes and nanosheets via a cysteine-linking strategy. The experimental results reveal that these Au-BiVO4 heterogeneous nanostructures exhibit much higher visible-light ph...