Title
Conducting PANI stimulated ZnO system for visible light photocatalytic degradation of coloured dyes
Date Issued
01 September 2016
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Saravanan R.
Gracia F.
Khan M.M.
Mosquera E.
Gupta V.K.
University of Chile
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
In this report, the polyaniline (PANI)/ZnO nanocomposite system exhibits superior degradation of methyl orange and methylene blue under visible light condition, due to the intermolecular interaction between conducting PANI sponsoring more number of electrons to the conduction band of ZnO nanoparticles. The pure ZnO and the different mole ratios of PANI into ZnO catalysts were prepared by precipitation followed by sonication process. The bandgap of the nanocomposite system revealed in the red region was estimated by Tauc plot. The X-ray diffraction results indicate that the high quantity of PANI into ZnO system reduces the crystallite size and also the crystallinity of the materials. On comparing with the other prepared materials, PZ1.5 illustrated higher degradation of methyl orange and methylene blue. The reason for high catalytic activity and their mechanism of visible light activities were discussed in this paper.
Start page
1029
End page
1033
Volume
221
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de procesos Ingeniería de materiales
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84976565020
Source
Journal of Molecular Liquids
ISSN of the container
01677322
Sponsor(s)
The authors (R.S and F.G) gratefully acknowledge the FONDECYT Post-doctoral Project No.: 3150631 , Government of Chile, Santiago, for the financial assistance.
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