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Rational design and construction of step-scheme (S-scheme) photocatalyst has received much attention in the field of CO2 reduction because of its great potential to solve the current energy and environmental crises. In this study, a series of plate-like WO3/CuBi2O4 (WO/CBO) photocatalysts were synthesized. The CO and CH4 yields over optimal composite reached 1,115.8 and 67.2 µmol/m2 after 9 h visible light illumination (λ > 400 nm), which was higher than those of two pure catalysts in CO 2 photoreduction. The product yields slightly decreased in the 7th cycling. Besides, the staggered band structure of heterojunction was characterized by diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) and valence band-X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (VB-XPS), and a S-scheme charge transfer mechanism was verified by detecting electron spin resonance (ESR) and XPS result about surface composition of WO/CBO catalyst in dark or light. This work may be useful for rational designing of S-scheme photocatalyst and provides some illuminating insights into the S-scheme transfer mechanism.
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