Research progress of visible-light response photocatalysts for organic pollutant degradation.

Photodegradation of aqueous organic pollutants is a very promising strategy to address environmental Issues and energy problems. In this paper, the latest research progress of photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants in recent years was introduced, focusing on titanate photocatalyst, tantalum photocatalyst, niobate photocatalyst, inorganic layered compounds, metal sulfides, and Z-type photocatalytic reaction system. The problems and feasible solutions of degradation of organic pollutants by metal chalcogenide catalysts were summarized, and the future research work on visible light photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants was prospected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]