Construction of heterojunction and decoration cocatalyst are two vital strategies to accelerate migration charge carriers. However, the fabrication routs multi-composites usually complex expensive. In this work, Bi2O2CO3/Bi2O3/Bi ternary composite was fabricated via a facile one-step redox reaction. Ethylene glycol selected as solvent during whole reaction process. Moreover, ethylene an excelle...

Phase-pure BiCuOSe, which is isostructural to the layered p-type transparent conductor LaCuOS, has been synthesized in high yield by a single-step hydrothermal reaction at low temperature (250 degrees C) and pressure (<20 atm). A moderate reaction temperature of 250 degrees C was sufficiently high to solubilize both Bi2O3 and Cu2O and stabilize monovalent copper and low enough to impede the oxi...

The formation mechanisms of pyrochlore-type Bi2Co1/2Cr1/2Nb2O9+Δ (space group Fd-3m, a = 10.4838(8) Å), in the temperature range from 400 to 1050 °C were studied by employing X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy and energy-dispersive spectroscopy. An extensive reaction between binary metal oxides was found begin at temperatures above 550 °C, following transition monoclinic α-Bi2O3 in...

A single crystal of gallium borate, GaBO3, 4 × 4 × 0.2 mm3 in size has been grown by spontaneous crystallization with a molten flux based on a Bi2O3-3B2O3 solvent. From single crystal X-ray diffraction measurement, GaBO3 was found to crystallize in the trigonal calcite type, space group R-3c, with cell dimensions a = 4.56590(10) and c = 14.1764(4) Å, Z = 6. Layers of distorted [GaO6] octahedra ...

Graphene derivatives and metal oxide-based nanocomposites (NCs) are being studied for their diverse applications including gas sensing, environmental remediation, biomedicine. The aim of the present work was to evaluate effect rGO Bi2O3 integration on photocatalytic anticancer efficacy. A novel Bi2O3-WO3/rGO NCs successfully prepared via precipitation method. X-ray crystallography (XRD) data co...

Multicomponent TeO2–Bi2O3–ZnO (TBZ) glass thin films were prepared using RF magnetron sputtering under different oxygen flow rates. The influences of oxygen flow rate on the structural and optical properties of the resulting thin films were investigated. We observed that thin films sputtered in an oxygen-rich environment are optically transparent while those sputtered in an oxygen-deficient env...

Structural distortions in post-transition metal oxides are often explained in terms of the influence of sp hybrid "lone pairs." Evidence is presented here showing that this model must be revised. The electronic structures of prototypically distorted alpha-PbO and alpha-Bi2O3 have been measured by high-resolution x-ray photoemission and soft x-ray emission spectroscopies. In contrast with the ex...