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Facile fabrication of In2O3/Bi2WO6 heterostructured microbelts with enhanced photocatalytic activity

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The In2O3/Bi2WO6 heterostructured microbelts with the diameters around 500 nm–1 μm have been fabricated by electrospinning combined with the annealing process. The as-prepared microbelts were characterized by thermogravimetric and differential scanning calorimetry, fourier transform infrared spectroscope, X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscope and transmission electron microscope. It was found that the In2O3/Bi2WO6 microbelts reported here showed the well-defined morphology. Additionally, In2O3/Bi2WO6 heterostructured microbelts exhibit the enhanced photocatalytic activity under the simulated sunlight irradiation compared with the pure Bi2WO6 microbelts.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51172133), Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (Grant No. ZR2013BQ001), Project of Independent Innovation of University Institute of Jinan (Grant No. 201311034) and Shandong Province Higher Educational Science and Technology Program (Grant No. J13LA01). The authors also thank the Analytical Center of Qilu University of Technology for technological support.

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    Xiaona Liu, Qifang Lu, Chaofeng Zhu & Suwen Liu

  2. Lunan Research Institute of Coal Chemistry, Jining, 272000, People’s Republic of China

    Cuiqing Wang

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Liu, X., Lu, Q., Wang, C. et al. Facile fabrication of In2O3/Bi2WO6 heterostructured microbelts with enhanced photocatalytic activity. J Sol-Gel Sci Technol 73, 358–364 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10971-014-3541-z

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