title: Sonochemical synthesis of Ag/AgCl nanocubes and their efficient visible-light-driven photocatalytic performance.
abstract: A novel one-step sonochemical approach to synthesize a plasmonic photocatalyst of AgCl nanocubes (ca. 115 nm in edge length) with a small amount of Ag metal species is presented. The nanoscale Ag/AgCl hybrid photocatalysts with cubic morphology are readily formed under ambient ultrasonic conditions and neither external heat treatment nor reducing agents are required. The size of the Ag/AgCl photocatalysts could be controlled by changing the concentrations of Ag(+) ions and polyvinylpyrrolidone molecules in precursor solutions. The compositions, microstructures, influencing factors, and possible growth mechanism of the Ag/AgCl hybrid nanocubes were systematically investigated. The Ag/AgCl photocatalysts show excellent photocatalytic performance for degradation of various dye molecules under visible light.
authors.affiliation: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, 100 Science Road, Zhengzhou 450001, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Deliang
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Seung Hwa
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Yoo
authors.forename: Qingsong
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Ghafar
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ali
authors.forename: Sung Oh
authors.initials: SO
authors.lastname: Cho