Iron Oxychloride (FeOCl)-Based Materials as High-Performance Heterogeneous Fenton-like Catalysts: Crystal Structure, Reaction Mechanisms, Material Engineering, and Environmental Applications
Review summarizes the performance and properties of FeOCl as a catalyst for pollutant degradation, highlighting future challenges.
Key Points
This review aims to summarize current advancements in FeOCl-based materials as catalysts, exploring their properties, mechanisms, and applications in pollutant degradation.
Summarized progress in FeOCl-based materials, focusing on their crystal structure, properties, and synthesis strategies.
Discussed experimental evidence and computational studies using density functional theory (DFT).
Examined various engineering techniques such as heterojunction construction and morphology engineering.
FeOCl demonstrated high efficiency in degrading various pollutants, including dyes and antibiotics.
Presented insights into pH-insensitivity for H2O2 activation and visible-light-assisted reactions.
Highlighted challenges in catalyst stability, scalability, and byproduct toxicity that need to be addressed.