Research progress in bismuth vanadate heterojunction photocatalysts
The research progress of bismuth vanadate(BiVO4)based heterojunction photocatalytic materi-als was reviewed.Aiming at the shortcomings of BiVO4 based heterojunction photocatalytic materials with narrow band gap and high photogenerated carrier recombination rate,heterojunction types of BiVO4 based heterojunction photocatalytic materials were described.The research progress of BiVO4-based heterojunc-tion photocatalytic materials in the field of water decomposition,degradation of organic pollutants,reduc-tion of CO2 and heavy metal ions was introduced in detail.The existing problems of BiVO4-based hetero-junction photocatalytic materials were analyzed,and the future research focus and direction were prospec-ted.