RESUMEN
Exploring high performance photocatalysts is of great importance to relieve the environment pollution issues. In this paper, we introduce a facile antisolvent solvothermal method to synthesize methylammonium lead tribromide perovskite (MAPbBr3) nanocrystals and successfully employ them as efficient photocatalysts. Compared to the room temperature synthesized MAPbBr3 (RT-MAPbBr3), the antisolvent solvothermal synthesized MAPbBr3 (AS-MAPbBr3) has multiple outstanding properties, such as improved crystallinity with lower grain boundary density, enhanced light absorption in visible range, suitable band gap of 2.31â¯eV and extended photoluminescence (PL) lifetime as long as 2627.82â¯ns. By taking advantages of the above merits, the AS-MAPbBr3 exhibits efficient photocatalytic performance by decomposition of methyl orange under solar light. A high apparent rate constant of 101.2â¯×â¯10-3 is achieved along with excellent cyclability, which significantly outperforms the RT-MAPbBr3 (56.0â¯×â¯10-3) and P25 (16.5â¯×â¯10-3). The underlying mechanism for MO photocatalytic degradation is deeply explored and proposed. Our present study suggests that the antisolvent solvothermal method can be a promising method to synthesize perovskite nanocrystals, and might also provide some insights in developing a series of high performance perovskite based photocatalysts.