The invention discloses preparation of a
heterojunction photocatalyst and application of the
heterojunction photocatalyst in treatment of
uranium-containing
wastewater. The preparation comprises the following steps: step 1, preparing
polystyrene nanospheres; step 2, preparing PS-TiO2 (
Polystyrene); and 3, adding PS-TiO2 prepared in the step 2 into
ethanol, carrying out
ultrasonic dispersion, adding a carbon
quantum dot solution, carrying out a stirring reaction at a certain temperature for a certain time, carrying out
centrifugation, washing with
ethanol and deionized water to obtain a faint yellow product, and
drying the faint yellow product to obtain the
heterojunction photocatalyst. The heterojunction photocatalyst PS-TiO2-coated CQDs is synthesized by taking a support type material
polystyrene nanosphere as a substrate,
coating the surface of the substrate with a photocatalyst TiO2 and introducing
carbon quantum dots to construct an S-type heterojunction
coupling in-situ surface
active site modification strategy, and the heterojunction photocatalyst PS-TiO2-coated CQDs shows extremely high photocatalytic activity and special selectivity to
uranium, and can be applied to the field of
uranium treatment. The PS-TiO2-coated CQDs show excellent
ion interference resistance,
chemical stability and cycle performance in a uranium-containing solution, and the photocatalytic removal rate of the PS-TiO2-coated CQDs to U (VI) is greater than 99%.