liberation from water splitting process (Wang et al. 2019b). Hollow microspheres of
BiVO 4 showed considerable solar light photocatalysis efficiency for remediation of
rhodamine B and 2Àpropanol (Sun et al. 2013a). At 1998, Kudo’s team reported a
great candidate with high potential for photocatalytic water splitting named BiVO 4
for the first time (Huang et al. 2017). Years later, Kudo et al. demonstrated
photoactivated efficiency of bismuth vanadate for O 2 liberation from AgNO 3 solution under visible light (Kudo et al. 1999).
Fig. 10.6 Evaluation of color changing of adsorbed rhodamine B on the Bi 2 MoO 6 thin film at
different interval time (a) and an experiment done on the bare glass (b and c). (Reprinted with
permission of Elsevier from Cuéllar et al. 2011)
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