One-pot synthesis of CdS/metal-organic framework aerogel composites for efficient visible photocatalytic reduction of aqueous Cr(vi)

Haiyan Yang; Liang Jiang; Wei Wang; Zhifang Luo; Jing Li; Zijuan He; Zhiyin Yan; Jiaqiang Wang

doi:10.1039/c9ra08339a

One-pot synthesis of CdS/metal-organic framework aerogel composites for efficient visible photocatalytic reduction of aqueous Cr(vi)

RSC Adv. 2019 Nov 19;9(64):37594-37597. doi: 10.1039/c9ra08339a. eCollection 2019 Nov 13.

Authors

Haiyan Yang¹, Liang Jiang¹, Wei Wang¹, Zhifang Luo¹, Jing Li², Zijuan He¹, Zhiyin Yan¹, Jiaqiang Wang¹

Affiliations

¹ National Center for International Research on Photoelectric and Energy Materials, Yunnan Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center of Green Chemistry for Lignite Energy, Yunnan Province Engineering Research Center of Photocatalytic Treatment of Industrial Wastewater, School of Chemical Sciences & Technology, Yunnan University Kunming 650091 China jqwang@ynu.edu.cn.
² School of Energy, Yunnan University Kunming 650091 China.

Abstract

Metal-organic framework aerogels (MOAs) embedded with CdS (CdS/MOA(Cr)) synthesized via a facile one-pot solvothermal method have a larger surface area than pristine MOA(Cr) and the post-synthesized composite. CdS/MOA(Cr) exhibited 5 times enhancement in the photocatalytic activity than that of pure CdS for Cr(vi) reduction under visible light without adding any sacrificial agent, due to the larger surface area and photosensitazation of MOA(Cr).