A review in visible-light-driven BiVO<SUB align=right>4 photocatalysts

Synthesis and characterization of a novel BiVO4/SiO2 nanocomposites

“…Photocatalytic properties of BiVO 4 materials are greatly dependent on their physicochemical properties. The photocatalytic efficiency of BiVO 4 can be enhanced by decreasing the size of BiVO 4 particles due to the significant increase of surface area [1,2]. However, difficulties encountered in separation of well-defined BiVO 4 particles become the major obstacle for large 2 scale industrial applications.…”

BiVO4‐Silica Composites Containing Cobalt Phthalocyanine Groups: Synthesis, Characterization and Application in Photodegradation of 2,4,6‐Trichlorophenol

“…[1][2][3]) and Type II (Eqs. [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11])-mechanisms are dependent on the presence of oxygen species in the solution. These two processes can take place simultaneously and also independently (28).…”

“…Developing the new non titania types of photocatalysts considered to be active under visible light is an attractive research area (3). Bismuth vanadate species are such promising kinds of materials and recently are being used as active visible-light driven photocatalysts (4)(5)(6)(7). This bright yellow pigment has been prepared in several crystalline phases including tetragonal zircon, monoclinic sheelite and tetragonal sheelite (8).…”

Hydrothermal synthesis of meso/macroporous BiVO4 hierarchical particles and their photocatalytic degradation properties under visible light irradiation

“…Recently, a great progress has been developed to fabricate porous materials, by using surfactants or soft templates (Zhang and Zhang 2009;Ren et al 2009;Shang et al 2009;Yin et al 2010;Xu et al 2011). However, all these strategies to improve the surface area of BiVO 4 materials are less favorable from the technological point of view, as they may add impurities and increase the overall cost of production, thus rendering large-scale technical production difficulties.…”