In situ photogalvanic acceleration of optofluidic kinetics: A new paradigm for advanced photocatalytic technologies

Huizhi Wang; Xiaojiao Luo; Michael K H Leung; Dennis Y C Leung; Zhiyong Tang; Hailiang Wang; Rafael Luque; Jin Xuan

doi:10.1039/c4ra14032j

In situ photogalvanic acceleration of optofluidic kinetics: A new paradigm for advanced photocatalytic technologies

Huizhi Wang, Xiaojiao Luo, Michael K H Leung, Dennis Y C Leung, Zhiyong Tang, Hailiang Wang, Rafael Luque, Jin Xuan^*

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A multiscale-designed optofluidic reactor is demonstrated in this work, featuring an overall reaction rate constant of 1.32 s^-1 for photocatalytic decolourization of methylene blue, which is an order of magnitude higher as compared to literature records. A novel performance-enhancement mechanism of microscale in situ photogalvanic acceleration was found to be the main reason for the superior optofluidic performance in the photocatalytic degradation of dyes as a model reaction.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	791-796
Number of pages	6
Journal	RSC Advances
Volume	5
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c4ra14032j
Publication status	Published - 2015

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