Effect of HCl treatment on physico-chemical properties and photocatalytic performance of Fe–TiO2 nanotubes for hexavalent chromium reduction and dye degradation under visible light

Chemosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 131247
Author(s):  
Zulakha Zafar ◽  
Rida Fatima ◽  
Jong-Oh Kim
Materials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (23) ◽  
pp. 3948
Author(s):  
Lingfang Qiu ◽  
Zhiwei Zhou ◽  
Mengfan Ma ◽  
Ping Li ◽  
Jinyong Lu ◽  
...  

Novel visible-light responded aluminosilicophosphate-5 (SAPO-5)/g-C3N4 composite has been easily constructed by thermal polymerization for the mixture of SAPO-5, NH4Cl, and dicyandiamide. The photocatalytic activity of SAPO-5/g-C3N4 is evaluated by degrading RhB (30 mg/L) under visible light illumination (λ > 420 nm). The effects of SAPO-5 incorporation proportion and initial RhB concentration on the photocatalytic performance have been discussed in detail. The optimized SAPO-5/g-C3N4 composite shows promising degradation efficiency which is 40.6% higher than that of pure g-C3N4. The degradation rate improves from 0.007 min−1 to 0.022 min−1, which is a comparable photocatalytic performance compared with other g-C3N4-based heterojunctions for dye degradation. The migration of photo-induced electrons from g-C3N4 to the Al site of SAPO-5 should promote the photo-induced electron-hole pairs separation rate of g-C3N4 efficiently. Furthermore, the redox reactions for RhB degradation occur on the photo-induced holes in the g-C3N4 and Al sites in SAPO-5, respectively. This achievement not only improves the photocatalytic activity of g-C3N4 efficiently, but also broadens the application of SAPOs in the photocatalytic field.


2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 5426-5432
Author(s):  
G. Gnanamoorthy ◽  
M. Muthukumaran ◽  
P. Varun Prasath ◽  
V. Karthikeyan ◽  
V. Narayanan ◽  
...  

Photocatalysts provide excellent potential for the full removal of organic chemical pollutants as an environmentally friendly technology. It has been noted that under UV-visible light irradiation, nanostructured semiconductor metal oxides photocatalysts can degrade different organic pollutants. The Sn6SiO8/rGO nanocomposite was synthesized by a hydrothermal method. The Sn6SiO8 nanoparticles hexagonal phase was confirmed by XRD and functional groups were analyzed by FT-IR spectroscopy. The bandgap of Sn6SiO8 nanoparticles (NPs) and Sn6SiO8/GO composites were found to be 2.7 eV and 2.5 eV, respectively. SEM images of samples showed that the flakes like morphology. This Sn6SiO8/rGO nanocomposite was testing for photocatalytic dye degradation of MG under visible light illumination and excellent response for the catalysts. The enhancement of photocatalytic performance was mainly attributed to the increased light absorption, charge separation efficiency and specific surface area, proved by UV-vis DRS. Further, the radical trapping experiments revealed that holes (h+) and superoxide radicals (·O−2) were the main active species for the degradation of MG, and a possible photocatalytic mechanism was discussed.


RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (97) ◽  
pp. 94361-94364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongwei Huang ◽  
Ke Xiao ◽  
Fan Dong ◽  
Jinjian Wang ◽  
Xin Du ◽  
...  

Sulfur doping simultaneously endows the wide-band-gap Bi2O2CO3 promoted band energy structure and charge separation achieving enhanced visible-light photocatalytic performance for dye degradation and NO removal.


2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (43) ◽  
pp. 17521-17529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuai-Ru Zhu ◽  
Peng-Fei Liu ◽  
Meng-Ke Wu ◽  
Wen-Na Zhao ◽  
Guo-Chang Li ◽  
...  

BiOBr/NH2-MIL-125(Ti) composite photocatalysts have been prepared by incorporating NH2-MIL-125(Ti) with BiOBr and exhibited improved photocatalytic activity under visible light compared to pristine BiOBr and NH2-MIL-125(Ti).


RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 6643-6650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lijuan Han ◽  
Zheng Ma ◽  
Zhihe Luo ◽  
Gang Liu ◽  
Jiantai Ma ◽  
...  

The precursor with nanotubes structure can be hydrogenated easily in lower temperature comparing with nanobelts. The light absorption and photocatalytic activity of hydrogenated TiO2 nanotubes were enhanced drastically.


RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (103) ◽  
pp. 84406-84409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mengxiao Sun ◽  
Tianhang Li ◽  
Zhaoyuan Zhang ◽  
Nana Wang ◽  
Aming Xie ◽  
...  

Luffa sponge was used as a biotemplate for the growth of ZnO nanoparticles. This new structure of ZnO displayed a unique photocatalytic performance for dye degradation under visible light.


Carbon ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 125 ◽  
pp. 544-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lijun Ji ◽  
Yuheng Zhang ◽  
Shiyong Miao ◽  
Mindong Gong ◽  
Xi Liu

RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (49) ◽  
pp. 39592-39600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhou Sha ◽  
Jishan Wu

A BiOBr/UiO-66(Zr) composite was used as visible-light promoted photocatalyst for the degradation of rhodamine B with high activity and good catalyst stability.


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