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ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY
Volume 44, Issue 18, Pages 2702-2712Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2022.2041102
Keywords
Photocatalytic activities; nanocubes; Cu2O@CuS; tetracycline; shape-controlled
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In this study, shape-controlled Cu2O@CuS nanocubes were successfully prepared and used as photocatalyst materials for the degradation of tetracycline. The experimental results showed that the nanocubes exhibited high degradation efficiency under visible light and maintained a high degradation performance even after multiple uses.
In view of recent advances in photodegradation of antibiotics, low cost and stable photocatalyst remain rare. In this article, shape-controlled Cu2O@CuS nanocubes with the larger specific surface area were successfully prepared via a simple template-engaged strategy. Cu2O nanocubes were synthesized through a reduction method as original templates, the core-shelled Cu2O@CuS nanocubes were formed by sulphuration with Na2S as sulphur source, and the Cu2O core can be incompletely removed by Na2S2O3 to generate the Cu2O@CuS nanoboxes. Herein, hierarchical nanoboxes with two-layered Cu2O@CuS were used as photocatalyst materials for photocatalytic degradation of tetracycline (TC). The obtained nanocubes manifested high specific surface area (39.65 m(2) g(-1)) and large pore volume (12.3 cm(3) g(-1)). The degradation performance for TC was investigated in detail, including the effect of parameters such as photocatalyst, pH and catalyst dosage. The results indicated that degradation efficiencies were higher than 90% under visible light. Moreover, the degradation efficiency was 71% after six times.
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