dc.contributor.author | Dolić, Slobodan D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Jovanović, Dragana J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Smits, Krisjanis | |
dc.contributor.author | Babić, Biljana | |
dc.contributor.author | Marinović-Cincović, Milena | |
dc.contributor.author | Porobić, Slavica | |
dc.contributor.author | Dramićanin, Miroslav D. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-10-01T13:20:27Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-10-01T13:20:27Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0272-8842 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.lu.lv/dspace/handle/7/52551 | |
dc.description | The authors from Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences acknowledge the financial support of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia (Project no: 172056 ). The work of K. Smits was supported by Latvian National Research Program IMIS2 (Grant no. 302/2012 ). | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Monoclinic scheelite-type BiVO4 is currently considered as one of the most promising non-titania photocatalysts, wheras tetragonal zircon-type BiVO4 is still poorly understood. Herein, a new and simple synthetic approach was applied and nanostructured single-phase zircon-type BiVO4 was successfully prepared by a controllable ethylene-glycol colloidal route. In addition, nanostructured monoclinic scheelite-type BiVO4 powders were also fabricated through annealing of the as-prepared samples. A comparative study of the two BiVO4 polymorphs was conducted and it turned out that the novel synthetic approach had a significant impact on porosity and photocatalytic performance of zircon-structured BiVO4. All the prepared materials, as-prepared and annealed, were mesoporous, while measured values of specific surface area of some zircon-structured samples (∼34 m2/g) were ∼7 times higher than those reported thus far for this phase. Interestingly, for the first time, zircon-type BiVO4, previously considered to be a poor photocatalyst, exhibited a better overall performance in degradation of methyl orange compared to monoclinic scheelite-type BiVO4. Hence, it could be expected that the here-presented synthesis and observations will both arouse interest in scarcely studied tetragonal zircon-type BiVO4 and facilitate as well as speed up further research of its properties. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia (Project no: 172056 ); Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia as the Center of Excellence has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme H2020-WIDESPREAD-01-2016-2017-TeamingPhase2 under grant agreement No. 739508, project CAMART² | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier Ltd | en_US |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/739508/EU/Centre of Advanced Material Research and Technology Transfer/CAMART² | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Ceramics International;44 (15) | |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_US |
dc.subject | Research Subject Categories::NATURAL SCIENCES:Physics | en_US |
dc.subject | Bismuth vanadate | en_US |
dc.subject | Methyl orange degradation | en_US |
dc.subject | Monoclinic scheelite-type BiVO4 | en_US |
dc.subject | Photocatalysis | en_US |
dc.subject | Tetragonal zircon-type BiVO4 | en_US |
dc.title | A comparative study of photocatalytically active nanocrystalline tetragonal T zyrcon- type and monoclinic scheelite-type bismuth vanadate | en_US |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.ceramint.2018.06.272 | |