“…3 In order to accelerate the separation of photoinduced charge carriers and further enhance the photocatalytic activity of BiOI, many previous studies have focused on the BiOI-based composite photocatalysts, such as BiOI-Bi 2 WO 6 , BiOI-TiO 2 , BiOI-Ag, or BiOI-carbon etc. [4][5][6][7] Among them, the BiOI-carbon heterostructure with economic cost and easy preparation was regarded as a promising candidate for solving the above problem. 7,8 To the best of our knowledge, no reports on carbon/ BiOI heterostructure for photocatalytic treatment of Cr(VI), which was a common highly toxic and intractable pollutant in the wastewaters from leather tanning, electroplating, metallurgy, and chromate producing, etc.…”