Abstract:
To solve severe photocorrosion of Ag
3PO
4, which was used to prepare a core-shell Ag
3PO
4@polyaniline (PANI) composite photocatalyst by chemisorption, and graphene oxide (GO) was used as the carrier of Ag
3PO
4@PANI composite photocatalyst, reaching the superior carrier separation efficiency via synergetic effect of GO and PANI. The photocatalyst with mass ratio of GO to Ag
3PO
4@PANI of 4% shows visible light activity for the degradation of phenol, ciprofloxacin (CIP), tetracycline (TC) and dyes of 98.1%, 90.3%, 98.6% and 100% in 24 min, 18 min, 15 min and 5 min, respectively. Even after six repeat reactions, Ag
3PO
4@PANI/GO still maintain a high degradation rate. The trapping experiments confirm that •h
+ and •O
2 are the main active species in the photocatalytic degradation. The experimental results show that a core-shell structure is formed between PANI and Ag
3PO
4, the introduction of GO increases the electron transport rate, and the synergistic effect of PANI and GO on Ag
3PO
4 promotes the separation of photogenerated electrons and holes, thereby improving the stability of Ag
3PO
4 and photocatalytic activity.