材料科学
压电
异质结
极化(电化学)
超声波传感器
辐照
光催化
半导体
反应速率常数
化学工程
氧化还原
催化作用
光电子学
复合材料
动力学
物理化学
工程类
物理
声学
核物理学
化学
冶金
生物化学
量子力学
作者
Xiaofeng Zhou,Shuanghao Wu,Chunbo Li,Fei Yan,Hairui Bai,Bo Shen,Huarong Zeng,Jiwei Zhai
出处
期刊:Nano Energy
[Elsevier]
日期:2019-12-01
卷期号:66: 104127-104127
被引量:165
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.nanoen.2019.104127
摘要
Rapid charge transfer in various piezoelectric semiconductors is usually limited, which has thus hardly achieved a higher mechanochemical potential elicited by macroscopic polarization for advanced oxidation processes. Here we propose a piezoelectric ZnO/BaTiO3 heterostructure with an elevated macroscopic polarization under ultrasonic activation and, therefore, should be amenable to facilitate photoexcited electron-hole pairs with more efficient separation and transfer; that is, ZnO/BaTiO3 heterostructures have an enhanced piezophototronic effect. Under excitations of concurrent ultrasound at ultrasonic power of 120 W and simulated sunlight at light intensity of 100 mW cm−2 irradiation, the catalytic oxidation capability to dyeing wastewater degradation with ZnO/BaTiO3 is dramatically increased, and its oxidation reaction rate constant can be up to 1.20 × 10−1 min−1, which is 1.50 and 2.00 times that of BaTiO3 and ZnO, respectively. In contrast, ultrasonic agitation or simulated sunlight irradiation of ZnO/BaTiO3 results in an oxidation reaction rate constant of 3.46 × 10−2 or 5.60 × 10−2 min−1, correspondingly, which are both lower than the piezophototronic effect triggered. Additionally, the finite element simulation shows that the as-obtained ZnO/BaTiO3 creates a piezoelectric potential difference of 414.40 mV, which is higher than that of as-obtained BaTiO3 (409.50 mV) and ZnO (33.00 mV). This work will provide references for understanding the correlation between macroscopic polarization and catalytic oxidation processes, and also contribute to the development and applications of multi-energy harvesting piezoelectric materials.
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