Abstract:
A series of TiO
2/Bi
2O
3 heterojunction micro bers have been fabricated using cotton bers as bio-templates, and characterized by XRD, SEM and UV-Vis techniques. Results reveal that Bi
2O
3 in the TiO
2/Bi
2O
3 sample is assigned to monoclinic and tetragonal mix-crystal phase. Fibers lengths can reach several micrometers and diameters range from 0.5μm to 3μm. Compared with pure TiO
2 and Bi
2O
3, TiO
2/Bi
2O
3 samples display better absorption in visible light region. Photocatalytic activity was evaluated by degradation of MB under visible light irradiation. TiO
2/Bi
2O
3 micro bers exhibite much higher activity than pureTiO
2 and Bi
2O
3, and 22.84%TiO
2/Bi
2O
3 can achieve the decomposition of about 95%MB, which is attributed to synergistic e ects of the strong visible-light absorption of TiO
2/Bi
2O
3 micro bers and the heterojunction formed between TiO
2 and Bi
2O
3.