Facile Synthesis of Indium Sulfide/Flexible Electrospun Carbon Nanofiber for Enhanced Photocatalytic Efficiency and Its Application

Heterojunction system has been proved as one of the best architectures for photocatalyst owing to extending specific surface area,expanding spectral response range, and increasing photoinduced charges generation, separation, and transmission, which canprovide better light absorption range and higher reaction site. In this paper, Indium Sulfide/Flexible Electrospun Carbon Nanofiber(In2S3/CNF) heterogeneous systems were synthesized by a facile one-pot hydrothermal method. The results from characterizationsof SEM, TEM, XRD, Raman, and UV-visible diffuse reflectance spectroscopy displayed that flower-like In2S3was deposited on thehair-like CNF template, forming a one-dimensional nanofibrous network heterojunction photocatalyst. an‎d the newly preparedIn2S3/CNF photocatalysts exhibit greatly enhanced photocatalytic activity compared to pure In2S3. In addition, the formationmechanism of the one-dimensional heterojunction In2S3/CNF photocatalyst is discussed and a promising approach to degradeRhodamine B (RB) in the photocatalytic process is processed