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Abstract
Herein, various BiOBr nanostructures are successfully synthesized using a facile solvothermal method. A series of structural and morphological analyses clearly indicate that due to the nucleation protection provided by KOH and the presence of surface-absorbed hydroxyl groups, BiOBr transforms from nanosheet microspheres to nanopillow aggregations (BNP) and finally to nanoneedle matrix. The open-porous nanostructure of the BiOBr nanopillows (BNPs), along with their enhanced visible light absorption capacity and the presence of surface hydroxyls, enables them to adsorb nearly 100% of organic dyes, including rhodamine B (RhB), methylene blue, and methyl red. Furthermore, the BNP exhibits remarkable visible light photocatalytic activity, degrading higher concentrations of RhB in ≈20 min.
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Energy Technology provides a forum for researchers and engineers from all relevant disciplines concerned with the generation, conversion, storage, and distribution of energy.
This new journal shall publish articles covering all technical aspects of energy process engineering from different perspectives, e.g.,
new concepts of energy generation and conversion;
design, operation, control, and optimization of processes for energy generation (e.g., carbon capture) and conversion of energy carriers;
improvement of existing processes;
combination of single components to systems for energy generation;
design of systems for energy storage;
production processes of fuels, e.g., hydrogen, electricity, petroleum, biobased fuels;
concepts and design of devices for energy distribution.