Journal
NANOMATERIALS
Volume 11, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nano11020524
Keywords
carbon dots; sustainability; bio-sourced functional materials; metal-free photoredox catalysis; circular economy; circular chemistry
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Carbon dots synthesized from fish scales, rich in carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, displayed good photocatalytic activity in the photoreduction reaction, compared with conventional nitrogen-doped carbon dots.
The synthesis, characterization and photoreduction ability of a new class of carbon dots made from fish scales is here described. Fish scales are a waste material that contains mainly chitin, one of the most abundant natural biopolymers, and collagen. These components make the scales rich, not only in carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, but also in nitrogen. These self-nitrogen-doped carbonaceous nanostructured photocatalyst were synthesized from fish scales by a hydrothermal method in the absence of any other reagents. The morphology, structure and optical properties of these materials were investigated. Their photocatalytic activity was compared with the one of conventional nitrogen-doped carbon dots made from citric acid and diethylenetriamine in the photoreduction reaction of methyl viologen.
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