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Greatly enhanced photocatalytic activity and mechanism of H3PW12O40/polymethylmethacrylate/polycaprolactam sandwich nanofibrous membrane prepared by electrospinning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2016

Wei Li ,
Tingting Li ,
Ce Liu ,
Libao An ,
Yuqing Li ,
Weiwei Zhang ,
Lu Liu  and
Zhiming Zhang
Wei Li
Affiliation:
College of Material Science and Engineering, Hebei Provincial Key Laboratory of Inorganic Nonmetallic Materials, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan 063009, China
Tingting Li*
Affiliation:
College of Material Science and Engineering, Hebei Provincial Key Laboratory of Inorganic Nonmetallic Materials, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan 063009, China
Ce Liu
Affiliation:
College of Chemical Engineering, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan 063009, China
Libao An*
Affiliation:
College of Mechanical Engineering, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan 063009, China
Yuqing Li
Affiliation:
College of Material Science and Engineering, Hebei Provincial Key Laboratory of Inorganic Nonmetallic Materials, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan 063009, China
Weiwei Zhang*
Affiliation:
College of Material Science and Engineering, Hebei Provincial Key Laboratory of Inorganic Nonmetallic Materials, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan 063009, China
Lu Liu
Affiliation:
College of Material Science and Engineering, Hebei Provincial Key Laboratory of Inorganic Nonmetallic Materials, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan 063009, China
Zhiming Zhang*
Affiliation:
College of Material Science and Engineering, Hebei Provincial Key Laboratory of Inorganic Nonmetallic Materials, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan 063009, China
*
a) Address all correspondence to these authors. e-mail: litingting2046@163.com
b) e-mail: zhangzhiming1942@163.com
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Abstract

H3PW12O40/polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA)/polycaprolactam (PA6) nanofibrous membrane with a sandwich structure was prepared by electrospinning. Characterization with Fourier transformation infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDX), and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) indicated that H3PW12O40 has been successfully loaded into the upper and bottom layers of the sandwich membrane and its Keggin structure was not destroyed. The photocatalytic efficiency of the sandwich membranes were much higher (≥87.2%) than that of H3PW12O40 only (15.6%) and H3PW12O40/PMMA composite nanofibrous membrane (11.6%) in the degradation of methyl orange (MO) under ultraviolet irradiation. It may be caused by two factors: one was the photoreduction mechanism induced by the electron donating from PA6 to H3PW12O40, the other was the double contact area between H3PW12O40 and MO due to the sandwich structure of the laminated membrane. What is noteworthy is that the sandwich membranes were stable in water, so that they could be easily separated from the aqueous MO solution and reused without appreciable losses in photocatalytic activity after three photocatalytic cycles. In view of this, H3PW12O40/PMMA/PA6 sandwich nanofibrous membrane is promising as a photocatalyst to remove organic pollutants from practical wastewater.

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sandwich nanofibrous membraneelectrospinningH3PW12O40photocatalytic activityreusability
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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 31 , Issue 19 , 14 October 2016 , pp. 3060 - 3068
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