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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 4, Issue 25, Pages 12958-12963Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c3ra47359g
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- Fundamental Research funds for Central Universities Central [12D11317, 13D111312]
- National Science Foundation of China [21007009, 41273108, 21377023]
- Chen Guang project [10CG34]
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The conventional photo-Fenton reaction often suffers from the constraints of operation pH, low iron loading, ultraviolet availability in solar light and instability of iron-based catalysts. Here we report a novel heterogeneous Fenton reaction which works with a dye-photosensitized structural Fe(III)/Fe(II) redox cycling mechanism. The synthesized nontronite catalyst (NAU) was characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Fourier transform infrared spectra (FTIR), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis, and thermal gravimetric analysis (TG). NAU exhibited excellent catalytic activity over a wide pH range (3.0-8.0) for highly efficient degradation of Rhodamine B by hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) under visible light irradiation (lambda > 420 nm). The excited dye molecule donates electrons to structural iron sandwiched in NAU which further catalyzes H2O2 to generate highly reactive (OH)-O-center dot radicals. This iron-rich clay mineral (total Fe, 24.4 wt%) is chemically and mechanically stable. There are no measurable iron leaching, nor any noticeable loss of activity and damage to the clay structure observed after 6 recycles. Therefore, NAU clay has outstanding merits for the practical treatment of organic dye pollutants at large scale.
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