Oxygen vacancy and boron dual sites enable efficient oxygen activation for emerging contaminant degradation: Boosted exciton dissociation via built-in electric field modulation

Guanglan Di; Ruyu Shu; Dajun Han; Jiaowei Ding; Zefang Chen; Xuede Li; Xiangwei Wu; Xiaoli Zhao

doi:10.1016/j.apcatb.2024.124754

journal article Mar 01, 2025

Oxygen vacancy and boron dual sites enable efficient oxygen activation for emerging contaminant degradation: Boosted exciton dissociation via built-in electric field modulation

Guanglan Di Ruyu Shu Dajun Han Jiaowei Ding Zefang Chen

Xuede Li Xiangwei Wu

Xiaoli Zhao

Applied Catalysis B: Environmental Vol. 362 pp. 124754 · Elsevier BV

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Published: Mar 01, 2025
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Guanglan Di

School of Resources and Environment, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, P. R. China

Brook Byers Institute of Sustainable Systems, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30308, United States

Shihezi Medical College, Shihezi University, Xinjiang, China; Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

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Xiaoli Zhao

Division of Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS), Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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Anhui province Department of Education

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Guanglan Di, Ruyu Shu, Dajun Han, et al. (2025). Oxygen vacancy and boron dual sites enable efficient oxygen activation for emerging contaminant degradation: Boosted exciton dissociation via built-in electric field modulation. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 362, 124754. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2024.124754

Oxygen vacancy and boron dual sites enable efficient oxygen activation for emerging contaminant degradation: Boosted exciton dissociation via built-in electric field modulation

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