Photocatalytic Activity of Fe-Doped ZnO/Montmorillonite Nanocomposite for Degradation of Malachite Green

2015 ◽  
Vol 827 ◽  
pp. 19-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Afifah ◽  
Nadia Febiana Djaja ◽  
Rosari Saleh

In this study, the photocatalytic activity of pure Fe- doped ZnO and Fe- doped ZnO/Montmorillonite nanocomposite has been investigated for the degradation of malachite green under UV light irradiation. Both photocatalysts were synthesized using co-precipitation method and characterized by X-ray diffraction, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, Fourier-transform infrared absorption, and electron spin resonance. The results showed that the photocatalytic efficiency is better in the presence of montmorillonite compared to pure Fe- doped ZnO. To detect the possible reactive species involved in degradation of organic dyes control experiments with introducing scavengers into the solution of organic dyes were carried out. It is found that electron plays an important role in the degradation of malachite green.

2015 ◽  
Vol 1112 ◽  
pp. 194-200
Author(s):  
Nadia Febiana Djaja ◽  
Rosari Saleh

The present study compares the photocatalytic decolorization ability of bare Mn-doped ZnO and montmorillonite modified Mn-doped ZnO nanoparticles towards aqueous solution of organic dyes (methylene blue and malachite green) under UV light irradiation. Both photocatalysts were synthesized using co-precipitation method and characterized by X-ray diffraction, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, Fourier-transform infrared absorption, electron spin resonance, and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy. Comparison of degradation efficiency demonstrated that montmorillonite modified Mn-doped ZnO nanoparticles exhibited higher activity than bare Mn-doped ZnO nanoparticles.


2015 ◽  
Vol 827 ◽  
pp. 43-48
Author(s):  
Annisa Noorhidayati ◽  
Mia Putri Rahmawati ◽  
Nadia Febiana Djaja ◽  
Rosari Saleh

Transition metal ions (Co and Cr) doped ZnO nanoparticles supported on natural zeolite were synthesized using co-precipitation method. The synthesized samples were characterized by means of X-ray diffraction, energy dispersive X-ray, Fourier-transform infrared absorption, and UV-visible diffuse reflectance spectroscopy. The samples were further used as photocatalyst for degradation of methyl orange and methylene blue in aqueous solutions under UV light irradiation. The results showed that zeolite supported Cr-doped ZnO nanoparticles is more efficient compared with zeolite supported Co-doped ZnO nanoparticles. It is also revealed that zeolite supported samples possessed higher photocatalytic efficiency compared to bare samples.


2015 ◽  
Vol 1123 ◽  
pp. 295-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Afifah ◽  
Siti Adriani ◽  
Nadia Febiana Djaja ◽  
Rosari Saleh

The present study compares the photocatalytic decolorization ability of Fe-doped ZnO modified both natural zeolite and montmorillonite towards aqueous solution of organic dyes such as methylene blue and methyl orange under UV light irradiation. Both photocatalysts were synthesized using co-precipitation method and characterized by X-ray diffraction, energy dispersive X-ray, Fourier-transform infrared absorption, and electron spin resonance spectroscopy. The results showed that the photocatalytic efficiency is better in the presence of montmorillonite compared to natural zeolite.


2015 ◽  
Vol 1123 ◽  
pp. 289-294
Author(s):  
Annisa Noorhidayati ◽  
Raynaldi Philipus ◽  
Mia Putri Rachmawati ◽  
Rosari Saleh

A series of semiconductor nanophotocatalyst based on transition metal (Ni and Cr) doped ZnO nanoparticles have been synthesized in the presence of cetril methyl ammonium bromide (CTAB) by co-precipitation method. Samples were characterized by X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), Energy Dispersive X-Ray (EDX), Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM), and Brunauer-Emmet-Teller (BET) method. The resulting materials were explored for the decolorization of 4 different organic dyes (methyl orange, methylene blue, malachite green, and congo red) under UV light irradiation. The resulting materials exhibited relatively higher photocatalytic decolorization than bare Ni- and Cr-doped ZnO nanoparticles with similar doping concentration


2012 ◽  
Vol 584 ◽  
pp. 248-252
Author(s):  
B. Sankara Reddy ◽  
S. Venkatramana Reddy ◽  
R.P. Vijaya Lakshmi ◽  
N. Koteeswara Reddy

Pure ZnO and Ag, Co doped ZnO nano particles [Zn1-xAgxCoyO, where x = 0.00 and 0.05, y = 0.05] were synthesized by chemical co precipitation method without use of surfactant. All the prepared samples calcinated in 1 hour at 500oC, after that the morphology of the samples were evaluated by Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). The X- ray diffraction (XRD) results indicated that the synthesized co-doped ZnO nano crystals had the pure hexagonal structure without any significant change in the structure affected by Ag and Co substitution. Dopant elements Ag and Co are present in the ZnO host material and conformed by Energy Dispersive Analysis of X-ray Spectra (EDAX). The incorporation of Ag+ in the place of Zn2+ has made a considerable decrease in the size of nano crystals as compared to pure ZnO nano particles (It is to be noted that Co should be kept constant at 5 mol %). Blue emission was observed by Photo Luminescence (PL) Spectra.


2015 ◽  
Vol 1123 ◽  
pp. 241-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annisa Noorhidayati ◽  
Siti Adriani ◽  
Rosari Saleh

Fe- and Co-doped ZnO with various doping concentrations have been synthesized by co-precipitation method in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate as anionic surfactant. The obtained sample powders were characterized by X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared absorption, UV-visible diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, electron spin resonance spectroscopy and Brunauer-Emmet-Teller (BET) method. The photocatalytic activity was evaluated by observing the decolorization of methylene blue under UV light irradiation. The results revealed that the addition of a dopant atom significantly enhanced the photocatalytic activity.


2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (6) ◽  
pp. 1296-1307
Author(s):  
R. Jeyachitra ◽  
S. Kalpana ◽  
T. S. Senthil ◽  
Misook Kang

Abstract Methylene blue (MB) dye is the most common harmful, toxic, and non-biodegradable effluent produced by the textile industries. The present study investigates the effect of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles (NPs) and Ag–Ni doped ZnO NPs on the performance of photocatalytic degradation of MB dye. Pure ZnO and Ag–Ni doped ZnO NPs are synthesized using the co-precipitation method. The crystalline nature and surface morphology of the synthesized pure ZnO and Ag–Ni doped ZnO NPs was characterized by powder X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) analysis. The presence of spherical-like morphologies was confirmed from SEM and HRTEM analysis. The presence of Ni–O and Zn–O bands in the synthesized materials was found by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy analysis. The MB dye was degraded under UV-light exposure in various pH conditions. The Ag (0.02%)–Ni doped ZnO NPs exhibits highest photocatalytic activity of 77% under pH 4.


Author(s):  
Luciana Biazati ◽  
Lucas Lorenzini ◽  
Sandra Ferreira ◽  
Arilza Porto ◽  
Eustáquio de Castro ◽  
...  

The correlation between iron distribution in octahedral or tetrahedral sites in synthetic magnetite and zinc spinel ferrites and their catalytic properties were investigated in this work. The zinc‑doped nanomagnetites were prepared by co-precipitation method and annealed at 420 °C. X-ray diffraction, UV-Vis, X-ray absorption and 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopies were used to identify iron sites. The obtained results showed that ZnII replaces the relatively smaller FeIII cation in the tetrahedral sites, increasing the cubic lattice dimension, and this replacement remarkably enhances the catalytic effectiveness of the Zn-spinel ferrite towards the indigo carmine degradation compared to undoped magnetite. The indigo carmine degradation experiments were carried out using photo-Fenton method in which 50 mL of indigo carmine dye aqueous solutions (20 mg L−1, pH 3.0), 20 mg ZnxFe(3-x)O4, and 2.0 mL H2O2 (aqueous solution at 0.028 mol L−1) were placed under UV light at 25 °C. Under these experimental conditions the degradation rate of indigo carmine was superior to 98%.


Author(s):  
M Karthikeyan ◽  
A Jafar Ahamed ◽  
P Vijaya Kumar

The present investigation, the successful preparation of pure ZnO (Z1) NPs and SrBa dual doped ZnO (Z2) NPs by chemical co-precipitation technique without use of any capping agent. The structural and morphological properties of Z1 and Z2 NPs were analyzed using X-ray diffraction (XRD) studies, Field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), Elemental analysis (EDAX), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). An optical property was studied by UV–Vis spectroscopy and Photoluminescence (PL) spectra. The antimicrobial activity of Z1 and Z2 NPs has been investigated against Staphylococcus aureus and Klebsiella pneumoniae bacterial strains. It has been interestingly observed that Z2 NPs has enhanced the inhibitory activity than that of Z1 NPs against S. aureus and more efficiently than the K. pneumoniae bacterial strain.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Senthilkumar M ◽  
C. Arunagiri

Abstract FexZn1-xO (x = 0, 0.05, 0.075, 0.1 M) nanoparticles based photocatalysts were synthesized by a chemical precipitation method and characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) with energy dispersive X-ray emission (EDX) and UV–Vis spectroscopy. The photocatalytic efficiency of FexZn1-xO catalysts was assessed under visible light irradiation using the degradation of methylene blue (MB) and methyl orange (MO) dye in aqueous solution. The present investigation shows that the effect of optimized parameters (pH, catalyst dosage and initial dye concentration) and doping concentrations plays significant role in photocatalytic activity. The detailed photocatalytic mechanism for the enhancement of photocatalytic activity has also been proposed.


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