BiVO4 tubular structures: oxygen defect-rich and largely exposed reactive {010} facets synergistically boost photocatalytic water oxidation and the selective NN coupling reaction of 5-amino-1H-tetrazole

Jianqiang Hu; Huichao He; Xin Zhou; Zhaosheng Li; Qing Shen; Wenjun Luo; Ahmed Alsaedi; Tasawar Hayat; Yong Zhou; Zhigang Zou

doi:10.1039/C9CC01290G

BiVO₄ tubular structures: oxygen defect-rich and largely exposed reactive {010} facets synergistically boost photocatalytic water oxidation and the selective NN coupling reaction of 5-amino-1H-tetrazole†

Jianqiang Hu,^a Huichao He,^b Xin Zhou,*^c Zhaosheng Li,

*^ade Qing Shen,

^f Wenjun Luo,

^e Ahmed Alsaedi,^g Tasawar Hayat,^gh Yong Zhou

*^adi and Zhigang Zou^adei

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^a National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
E-mail: zhouyong1999@nju.edu.cn

^b State Key Laboratory of Environmental Friendly Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, Sichuan 621010, P. R. China

^c College of Environment and Chemical Engineering, Dalian University, Dalian, Liaoning 116622, P. R. China
E-mail: zhouxin@dlu.edu.cn

^d Key Laboratory for Nano Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

^e College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
E-mail: zsli@nju.edu.cn

^f Faculty of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan

^g Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia

^h Department of Mathematics, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan

ⁱ Kunshan Sunlaite New Energy Co., Ltd, Kunshan Innovation Institute of Nanjing University, Kunshan, Jiangsu 215347, P. R. China

Abstract

Unprecedented, oxygen defect-rich, monoclinic BiVO₄ nanotubes with largely exposed active {010} facets were successfully fabricated through a self-curling process of nascently generated ultrathin lamellar sheets, exhibiting impressive photocatalytic performance for both water oxidation and the selective N [double bond, length as m-dash] N coupling reaction of 5-amino-1H-tetrazole into sodium 5,5-azotetrazolate, with more than an order of magnitude enhancement relative to bulk materials.

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BiVO₄ tubular structures: oxygen defect-rich and largely exposed reactive {010} facets synergistically boost photocatalytic water oxidation and the selective NN coupling reaction of 5-amino-1H-tetrazole†

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