PMID- 36444064 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20221130 LR - 20221207 IS - 1873-3336 (Electronic) IS - 0304-3894 (Linking) VI - 443 IP - Pt B DP - 2023 Feb 5 TI - Activation of chloride by oxygen vacancies-enriched TiO(2) photoanode for efficient photoelectrochemical treatment of persistent organic pollutants and simultaneous H(2) generation. PG - 130363 LID - S0304-3894(22)02157-4 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.130363 [doi] AB - Photoelectrochemical (PEC) activation of chloride ions (Cl(-)) to degrade persistent organic pollutants (POPs) is a promising strategy for the treatment of industrial saline organic wastewater. However, the wide application of this technology is greatly restricted due to the general photoanode activation of Cl(-) with poor capability, the propensity to produce toxic by-products chlorates, and the narrow pH range. Herein, oxygen vacancies-enriched titanium dioxide (O(v)-TiO(2)) photoanode is explored to strongly activate Cl(-) to drive the deep mineralization of POPs wastewater in a wide pH range (2-12) with simultaneous production of H(2). More importantly, nearly no toxic by-product of chlorates was produced during such PEC-Cl system. The degradation efficiency of 4-CP and H(2) generation rate by O(v)-TiO(2) were 99.9% within 60 min and 198.2 mumol h(-1) cm(-2), respectively, which are far superior to that on the TiO(2) (33.1% within 60 min, 27.5 mumol h(-1) cm(-2)) working electrode. DFT calculation and capture experiments revealed that O(v)-TiO(2) with abundant oxygen vacancies is conducive to the activation of Cl(-) to produce more reactive chlorine species, evidenced by its high production of free chlorine (48.7 mg L(-1) vs 7.5 mg L(-1) of TiO(2)). The as-designed PEC-Cl system in this work is expected to realize the purification of industrial saline organic wastewater coupling with green energy H(2) evolution. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Wu, Jiabao AU - Wu J AD - School of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, PR China. FAU - Tao, Ying AU - Tao Y AD - School of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, PR China. FAU - Zhang, Chi AU - Zhang C AD - School of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, PR China. FAU - Zhu, Qiong AU - Zhu Q AD - School of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, PR China. FAU - Zhang, Dieqing AU - Zhang D AD - The Education Ministry Key Lab of Resource Chemistry, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Functional Materials, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, PR China. Electronic address: dqzhang@shnu.edu.cn. FAU - Li, Guisheng AU - Li G AD - The Education Ministry Key Lab of Resource Chemistry, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Functional Materials, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, PR China; School of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, PR China; School of Materials and Chemistry, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, PR China. Electronic address: liguisheng@shnu.edu.cn. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20221109 PL - Netherlands TA - J Hazard Mater JT - Journal of hazardous materials JID - 9422688 RN - 0 (Chlorides) RN - 0 (Persistent Organic Pollutants) RN - 15FIX9V2JP (titanium dioxide) RN - 0 (Chlorates) RN - 4R7X1O2820 (Chlorine) RN - S88TT14065 (Oxygen) RN - 0 (Waste Water) RN - 0 (Halogens) SB - IM MH - *Chlorides MH - *Persistent Organic Pollutants MH - Chlorates MH - Chlorine MH - Oxygen MH - Wastewater MH - Halogens OTO - NOTNLM OT - Industrial saline organic wastewater OT - Oxygen vacancies OT - Photoelectrochemical chlorine system OT - Reactive chlorine specie OT - Toxic by-product COIS- Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. EDAT- 2022/11/30 06:00 MHDA- 2022/12/01 06:00 CRDT- 2022/11/29 01:09 PHST- 2022/09/05 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/11/06 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/11/07 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/11/29 01:09 [entrez] PHST- 2022/11/30 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/12/01 06:00 [medline] AID - S0304-3894(22)02157-4 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.130363 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Hazard Mater. 2023 Feb 5;443(Pt B):130363. doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.130363. Epub 2022 Nov 9.