Construction of SrTiO3-BiOCl composite catalyst via facial microwave hydrothermal for highly efficient photocatalytic activity towards organic compounds degradation

This work mainly focuses on the preparation and performance study of SrTiO₃-BiOCl composite photocatalysis. The SrTiO₃-BiOCl photocatalysts are prepared via the facial microwave hydrothermal method. XRD, UV-vis DRS, SEM, TEM, XPS, N₂ adsorption and desorption isothermal experiment, FT-IR, and PL are applied to characterize the prepared samples. The spherical particles of SrTiO₃ grow on the flaky BiOCl, and the crystal size is uniform and evenly disperses on the BiOCl. The catalytic performance of the samples was evaluated over the degradation rates of methylene blue(MB). Typically, the clearance rates of MB reached to 99.65% over SrTiO₃-BiOCl-50% under visible light, which was much higher than that of SrTiO₃ and BiOCl (55.86%, 79.79%, respectively). The active species capturing experiments and ESR showed that the holes (h⁺) and ·OH are playing the main roles in the degradation process.