Recently, the latest achievement of oxygen vacancies induced exciton dissociation of flexible BiOCl nanosheets for effective photocatalytic CO2 conversion was published on Journal of Materials Chemistry A. In this work, the flexible BiOCl nanosheets with oxygen vacancies (BOC-OV) were successfully prepared and a series of characterization methods indicated that oxygen vacancies induced exciton dissociation of flexible BiOCl nanosheets. The light to carbon monoxide (LTCO) conversion efficiency for CO2 conversion of BOC-OV reached up to 26.5*10-6. importantly, theoretical calculations revealed the mechanism of oxygen vacancies improves the photocatalytic CO2 conversion with BOC-OV via the CO2 hydrogenation pathway. This work was completed in cooperation with the group of Professor Liqun Ye in Engineering Technology Research Center of Henan Province, Nanyang Normal University.
Full Article: Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2017, 5, 24995-25004.
