Preparation and Performance of WO3 with Long Visible Light Absorption by One-Step Oxygen Enriched Calcination Method for Water Oxidation

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Abstract: Tungsten trioxide (WO₃) only responds to sunlight below 460 nm, which greatly limits its utilization for sunlight. Therefore, the current research is focusing on broadening the spectral response range of WO₃. In this paper, nitrogen intercalated WO₃ (N₂-WO₃) with wide spectrum visible light response was prepared by one-step oxygen enriched calcination method using ammonium paratungstate [(NH₄)₁₀H₂W₁₂O₄₂·xH₂O] as precursor. The effects of N₂ insertion on the structure and properties of WO₃ were investigated by XRD, SEM, EDS, UV-Vis DRS and Raman. The results show that N₂ insertion effectively narrows the band gap (2.25 eV) of N₂-WO₃, which is 0.51 eV less than that of pure WO₃ (2.76 eV); the N content has a significant effect on the visible light absorption capacity of N₂-WO₃, and the N content decreases with the increase of calcination temperature. The measurement results of incident photon current conversion efficiency (IPCE) show that N₂-WO₃ responds to visible light below 520 nm. The results of photocatalytic oxygen evolution show that the photocatalytic activity of N₂-WO₃ is better than that of pure WO₃.

Key words: oxygen enriched calcination, nitrogen intercalation, tungsten trioxide, photoelectrocatalysis, photocatalysis, nanomaterial

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LI Dong, LI Rui, WU Fachao, GAO Caiyun. Preparation and Performance of WO₃ with Long Visible Light Absorption by One-Step Oxygen Enriched Calcination Method for Water Oxidation[J]. BULLETIN OF THE CHINESE CERAMIC SOCIETY, 2021, 40(7): 2380-2387.

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