Oxygen Vacancy Engineering and Constructing Built‐In Electric Field in Fe‐g‐C ₃ N ₄ /Bi ₂ MoO ₆ Z‐Scheme Heterojunction for Boosting Photo‐Fenton Catalytic Degradation Performance of Tetracycline

Abstract

A novel Fe-g-C₃N₄/Bi₂MoO₆ (FCNB) Z-scheme heterojunction enriched with oxygen vacancy is constructed and employed for the photo-Fenton degradation of tetracycline (TC). The 2% FCNB demonstrates prominent catalytic performance and mineralization efficiency for TC wastewater, showing activity of 8.20 times greater than that of pure photocatalytic technology. Density-functional theory (DFT) calculations and degradation experiments confirm that the formation of Fe-N₄ sites induces spin-polarization in the material, and the difference in Fermi energy levels results in the formation of built-in electric field at the contact interface, which facilitates the continuous generation and migration of photogenerated carriers to address the issue of insufficient cycling power of Fe (III)/Fe (II).The reactive radicals persistently target the extremely reactive sites anticipated by the Fukui function, causing the mineralization of TC molecules into "non-toxic" compounds through processes of hydroxylation, demethylation, and deamidation. This work holds significant importance in the domain of eliminating organic pollutants from water.