Journal
VACUUM
Volume 173, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.vacuum.2019.109150
Keywords
Manganese ferrite; Graphene oxide; Heterostructures; Photocatalysis; Degradation; Methylene blue
Funding
- Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India [EEQ/2016/000617, ECR/2017/003250]
- West Bengal state government
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The photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue dye (MB) has been investigated using bare manganese ferrite (MnFe2O4) nanoparticles and MnFe2O4 nanoparticles-decorated reduced graphene oxide heterostructures (MnFe2O4/rGO) under ultra-violet irradiation. The MnFe2O4 nanoparticles prepared using a facile co-precipitation method showed single-phase cubic spinel structure and superparamagnetic property. The MnFe2O4/rGO heterostructures showed the formation of sphere-like MnFe2O4 nanoparticles well-attached on rGO nanosheets with reduced agglomeration. The photocatalysis study shows that MnFe2O4/rGO had higher photocatalytic activity compared to bare MnFe2O4 nanoparticles. MB degraded by 84% in presence of MnFe2O4 after UV irradiation of 290 min, while 97% of it degraded in merely 60 min in case of MnFe2O4/rGO heterostructures. This is further confirmed by the well-fitted Langmuir-Hinshelwood Kinetics equation. This improvement in the photocatalytic activity of the heterostructure is attributed mainly to the retardation of the recombination process of photo-generated charge carriers. Hydroxyl radicals play the crucial role in the MnFe2O4-graphene system for MB photodegradation. Thus, MnFe2O4 nanoparticles-decorated reduced graphene oxide heterostructures can act as potential photocatalyst for degradation of hazardous organic dyes present in water.
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