Electronic Supplementary Material (ESI) for New Journal of Chemistry. This journal is The Royal Society of Chemistry and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 2016 Supporting Information Minuscule weight percent of graphene oxide and reduced graphene oxide modified Ag 3 : New insight into improved photocatalytic activity Bharati Panigrahy * and Sachchidanand Srivastava Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India *Corresponding Author: bharatip@sscu.iisc.ernet.in Quantum Yield Measurement using potassium ferrioxalate Actinometry [S1,S2] The experiments were carried out in a hollow cylindrical photoreactor equipped with a water jacket. A halogen lamp (120 W, OSRAM Haloline Pro double ended halogen lamp) was used as light source in this study. Light source was positioned within the inner part of the photoreactor and cooling water was circulated through a Pyrex jacket surrounding the lamp. To study the visible light photocatalytic activity of composites, the photoreactor was encased in a UV filter (1.0M NaNO2) which transmits only light of 400 nm. An apparent quantum yield (app) of photocatalysts was calculated using equation Φ app d d x (mole/s) dt hνinc (Einstein/ s) where, d[x]/dt is change of concentration of reactant (or product) with time and d[h]inc/dt is total numbers of photons (Einstein/s) falling on the sample. The photon flux was calculated by using potassium ferrioxalate (K3Fe(C2O4)3.3H2O) actinometry method. The light intensity in a photochemical reactor is determined by irradiating potassium ferrioxalate (K3Fe(C2O4)3.3H2O) solution and monitoring the subsequent change in absorbance of Fe 2+ -1,10-phenanthroline complex at 510 nm. 50 ml 3.0mM K3Fe(C2O4)3.3H2O solution was prepared by dissolving 735 gm compound in 40 ml water and 5 ml 1N H2SO4 in 50 ml volumetric flask and made final volume upto the mark. Ferrioxalate is a light sensitive compound and solution preparation was performed in dt
darkroom. For photolysis experiment, sample bottle containing 25 ml (V1) of potassium ferrioxalate solution was exposed to photoreactor. 1.0 ml (V2) solution was taken at different time interval (till 3 exposure) in a 10 ml volumetric flask and mixed with 0.5 ml CH3COONa buffer solution. 2 ml of 0.1 wt% 1,10-phenanthroline was added to this solution and made up the total volume 10 ml (V3) by adding water. All flasks were wrapped in aluminium foil and the solution was allowed develop complex of Fe 2+ and 1,10- phenanthroline. After one hour, the absorbance of the solutions was recorded on a UV-visible spectrophotometer at 510 nm. Fe 2+ concentration at different time intervals was determined by standard curve obtained from Fe 2+ -1,10-phenanthroline complex solutions. Light intensity (Eintsein/ s) Δn 3 10 ΦV t where, n (moles) is ferrous ions generated after irradiation, Φ is quantum yield of light used, V1 is irradiation volume and t is irradiation time in second. The moles of ferrous ions (n) can be calculated by using 10 n 3 V1V 3Ct V where, V1 is irradiated volume (25 ml), V2 is volume taken from the irradiated samples (1.0 ml), V3 is volume after dilution for concentration determination (10 ml) and Ct is concentration of ferrous ions generated in irradiated solution. The concentration of Fe 2+ (Ct) ions after dilution was determined by FeSO4 calibration curve (Fig. S1). A plot of numbers of moles of ferrous ions generated vs. time was plotted and (n/t) was obtained from linear fit. The apparent quantum yield (app) of all samples was calculated at wavelength 510 nm (. S2 The photon flux (Einstein/s) of light source was calculated to be 1.77 10-7. 2 1
6.0x10-6 No. moles of Fe 2+ produced 5.0x10-6 4.0x10-6 3.0x10-6 2.0x10-6 1.0x10-6 Slope=2.29 10-7 moles/min 0 5 10 15 20 25 Fig. S1: Numbers of moles of Fe 2+ ions produced after different irradiationtime exposed of visible light source. Table S1: Apparent quantum yield (appof photocatalytic degradation of RhB dye and 2- chlorophenol under visible light irradiation (at 500 nm). Sample rhodamine B dye 2-chlorophenol d[x]/dt (moles/s) Quantum (app Yield d[x]/dt (moles/s) Quantum Yield (app Ag3PO4 32 10-7 18 87 10-9 49 10-2 GO4-Ag3PO4 0.217 10-7 0.12 23 10-9 13 10-2 rgo14-ag3po4 45 10-7 25 19 10-9 09 10-2 rgo24-ag3po4 39 10-7 22 17 10-9 080 10-2 rgo34-ag3po4 30 10-7 17 075 10-9 042 10-2 Degussa P25 26 10-8 015 015 10-9 0084 10-2
(210) Ag 3 GO2-Ag 3 GO4-Ag 3 GO8-Ag 3 Intesity (a. u.) (110) (200) (211) (220) (310) (222) (320) (321) (400) (421) (420) (322) 15 30 45 60 75 2degree Fig. S2: Powder XRD pattern of pristine Ag3PO4 and GO-Ag3PO4 composites. All the diffraction patterns in the figure have been normalized with respect to maximum intensity peak (210).
Average Contribution (%) 70 65 60 55 50 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 GO4-Ag 3 rgo14-ag 3 rgo24-ag 3 rgo34-ag 3 C-C O-C O=C O-C=O Functional groups Fig. S3: Average contribution of different species to the C 1s spectra for GO4/rGO(1-3)4-Ag 3.
(a) GO4-Ag 3 O 2- (b) O 1s rgo14-ag 3 O 2- Counts (a.u.) O=C Counts (a.u.) O=C OCO OCO 525 528 531 534 537 540 Binding Energy (ev) 525 528 531 534 537 540 Binding Energy (ev) (c) O 1s rgo24-ag 3 O 2- (d) O 1s O 2- rgo34-ag 3 Counts (a.u.) O=C OCO Counts (a.u.) O=C OCO 525 528 531 534 537 540 Binding Energy (ev) 525 528 531 534 537 540 Binding Energy (ev) Average Contribution (%) 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 (e) GO4-Ag 3 rgo14-ag 3 rgo24-ag 3 rgo34-ag 3 0 O2- O=C O-C=O Species Name Fig. S4: (a-d) High-resolution O 1s spectra of GO4 and rgo(1-3)4 modified Ag3PO4. (e) Average contribution of different species to the O 1s spectra.
(d) 1650 1378 1124 590 Intensity (a.u.) (c) (b) 1654 1560 1360 1166 1078 1000 590 (a) 874 590 1738 1050 1642 1212 2000 1500 1000 500 Wave number (cm -1 ) Fig. S5: FTIR spectra of (a) GO4-Ag 3, (b) rgo14-ag 3, (c) rgo24-ag 3 and (d) rgo34- Ag 3 composites. FTIR spectra of GO and rgos modified Ag3PO4 composites are shown in Figure S3. The FTIR spectrum of GO shows a strongabsorption band at around 1738 cm 1 due to the C=O stretching and 1642 cm 1 due to the O-H bending vibration of COOH groups situated at edges of GO sheets. It also exhibits bands around 1212 cm 1 and 1050 cm 1 due to epoxide (C-O-C) andalkoxy (C-O) groups, respectively. On the other hand, rgos show bands at 1650 cm 1 and 1212 cm 1 which are signature of hydroxyl (O-H) and epoxy (C-O-C) functional groups attached to 2D carbon framework in rgo. The band observed around 1360-1380 cm 1 in all three rgos is due stretching band of C-OH functional group. The spectra of rgo obtained from hydrazine reduction shows aromatic C=C band at 1558 cm -1. It is confirmed from the reduction in the peak intensity of various functional groups that the removal of different functionalities after reducing agent treatment of GO.
(a) Ag 3 GO2-Ag 3 GO4-Ag 3 Absorbance (a.u.) GO8-Ag 3 400 500 600 700 800 Ag 3 (b) GO2-Ag 3 GO4-Ag 3 GO8-Ag 3 (h) 2 2.0 2.2 2.4 2.6 2.8 3.0 h (ev) Fig. S6: (a) UV-visible diffused reflection spectra (DRS) and (b) transformed Kubelka Munkplot of pure and different weight percentage of GO-Ag3PO4 composites.
1.0 0.8 C/C 0 0.6 0.4 Rhodamine B 2-chlorophenol 0.2 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 Fig. S7: Variation of absorbance of rhodamine B (RhB) and 2-chlorophol (2-CP) at different irradiation times in absence of photocatalyst.
Ag 3 2 min 5 min 8 min 1 12min GO2-Ag 3 0.5 min 1 min 2 min 3 min 4 min 5 min 6 min 400 450 500 550 600 650 700 400 450 500 550 600 650 700 GO4-Ag 3 0.5 min 1 min 2 min 4min GO8-Ag 3 0.5 min 1 min 2 min 2.5 min 4 min 400 450 500 550 600 650 700 400 450 500 550 600 650 700 Fig. S8: UV-visible absorption spectra of RhB dye over Ag 3 and GO-Ag 3 composites at different irradiation times.
rgo14-ag 3 2 min 4 min 6 min 8 min 1 rgo24-ag 3 2 min 4 min 6 min 8 min 1 400 450 500 550 600 650 700 400 450 500 550 600 650 700 rgo34-ag 3 2 min 5 min 8 min 1 12 min 15 min 5 min 1 15 min 2 3 6 Degussa 400 450 500 550 600 650 700 400 450 500 550 600 Fig. S9: UV-visible absorption spectra of RhB dye over rgo(1-3)4-ag 3 composites and standard photocatalyst Degussa at different irradiation times.
1.0 (a) 0.8 rgo12-ag 3 k- 0.24±1 min -1 rgo14-ag 3 k- 0.36±1 min -1 rgo18-ag 3 k- 0.27±1 min -1 1.0 (b) 0.8 rgo22-ag 3 k- 0.19±3 min -1 rgo24-ag 3 k- 0.30±2 min -1 rgo28-ag 3 k- 0.22±1 min -1 C/C 0 0.6 0.4 C/C 0 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.2 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 0 2 4 6 8 10 1.0 (c) 0.8 rgo32-ag 3 k- 0.10±1 min -1 rgo34-ag 3 k- 0.13± -1 rgo38-ag 3 k- 0.12± -1 C/C 0 0.6 0.4 0.2 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 Fig. S10: Photodegradation of RhB dye as a function of illumination time for (a) rgo1-ag 3, (b) rgo2-ag 3 and (c) rgo3-ag 3 composites with different rgos concentration.
Ag 3 15 min 3 6 9 12 15 Absorbance (a. u) GO4-Ag 3 15 min 3 45 min 6 9 12 15 240 260 280 300 320 340 240 260 280 300 320 340 rgo14-ag 3 15 min 3 45 min 6 9 12 15 rgo24-ag 3 3 6 75 min 9 12 15 240 260 280 300 320 340 240 260 280 300 320 340 Absorbance (a. u) rgo34-ag 3 15 min 3 6 9 12 15 240 260 280 300 320 340 Fig. S11: Variation of absorbance of 2-CP over GO4-Ag 3 and rgo(1-3)4-ag 3 composites at different irradiation times.
Intensity (a. u.) Ag Ag(111)/Ag 3 (210) 2 1 0 Ag3PO4/5th Cycle GO4/5th Cycle GO4/10th Cycle Sample Ag 3 /5th Cycle GO4-Ag 3 /5th Cycle GO4-Ag 3 /10th Cycle 15 30 45 60 75 90 2degree Fig. S12: Stability studies on the photocatalytic degradation of RhB dye over (a) Ag3PO4 and (b) GO4-Ag3PO4 composite. (c) XRD patterns of the corresponding composites before and after recycling photocatalytic experiments.
1.0 0.8 (a) 1.0 (b) 0.8 C/C 0 0.6 0.4 C/C 0 0.6 0.4 0.2 No scavenger Ammonium oxalate p-benzoquinone t-butyl alcohol 0 4 8 12 16 20 No scavenger 0.2 Ammonium oxalate p-benzoquinone t-butyl alcohol 0 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 Fig. S13: Photocatalytic activities of (a) rgo24-ag 3 and (b) rgo34-ag 3 composites against RhB dye in the presence of different scavengers under visible-light irradiation. 1.0 0.8 0.6 C/C 0 0.4 0.2 No scavenger Ammonium oxalate t-butyl alcohol Inert gas N 2 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 Fig. S14: Photocatalytic activities of GO4-Ag 3 composites against 2-CP in the presence of different scavengers under visible-light irradiation. References: [S1] J. C. Lightcap, C. Long, J. G. Vos and M. T. Pryce, J. C.Manton, C.Long, J. G.Vos, M. T.Pryce, Dalton Trans., 2012, 43, 3576-3583. [S2] M. Montalti, A. Credi, L. Prodi and M. T. Gandolfi, Handbook of Photochemistry, Taylor & Francis, 3 rd edn., 2006.