文摘
N-doped antimonic acid was prepared by heating the pristine antimonic acid with urea at 400 掳C for 2 h. The pristine and N-doped antimonic acids show higher visible light activities for Rhodamine B (RhB) degradation in comparison with the commercial product P25. The pristine antimonic acid, which shows no obvious visible light absorption, exhibits the highest visible light activity for RhB degradation due to RhB self-sensitized degradation. The N-doped antimonic acid, which could absorb the visible light, shows higher visible light activity for the phenol degradation than the pristine antimonic acid. The order of 鈥H radical formation over the pristine and N-doped antimonic acids is consistent with that of phenol photocatalytic degradation, but opposite to that of RhB degradation. We demonstrate that the extent of degradation abilities under visible light irradiation depends on whether the reagent has the self-sensitized degradation or not.