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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 923, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2022.166255
Keywords
Pani nanocomposites; Adsorptive photo-fenton degradation; Recyclable
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- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) [09/135 (0760) /2017-EMR-I]
- Department of Science and Technology (DST) [DST/TMD (EWO) /OWUIS-2018/RS-15 (G)]
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The present study investigates the potential of PANI@CoFe2O4/g-CN nanocomposites as photocatalysts for wastewater decontamination. The results show that the incorporation of PANI improves the adsorption capacity and enhances the rate of photocatalytic degradation of pollutants. Additionally, PANI improves the visible light absorption capacity and promotes the separation of photogenerated charge carriers.
The present study strives to unlock the potential of CoFe2O4 supported over graphitic carbon nitride (g-CN) and polyaniline (PANI) as photocatalyst for wastewater decontamination. For this purpose, a series of PANI@CoFe2O4/g-CN (PA-CNC) nanocomposites were fabricated by varying PANI: CoFe2O4/g-CN ratio (0.25:1, 0.5:1, 1:1 and 2:1) employing in-situ oxidative polymerization method. The structure, morphology, optical and magnetic properties of the nanocomposites were characterized using FT-IR, Raman, XRD, FE -SEM, HR-TEM, XPS, UV-DRS, PL, EIS, VSM and BET analysis. The ternary nanocomposites were investigated for the removal of ofloxacin (OFX), sulfamethoxazole (SFX), p-nitrophenol (PNP) and malathion (MT) as model pollutants. Under optimized reaction conditions, the pseudo-first order rate constant value of PA -CNC (0.5:1) nanocomposite for the degradation of OFX (5.3 x 10-2 min-1) was observed to be nearly 4 times to that of pristine CoFe2O4 (1.3 x 10-2 min-1). The incorporation of PANI has improved the adsorption capacity of nanocomposites owing to synergistic effect of different interactions between pollutant mole-cules and PANI that subsequently augmented the rate of photocatalytic degradation of pollutants. Moreover, PANI improved the visible light absorption capacity and promoted the separation of photogenerated charge carriers across the ternary heterojunction. The magnetic recyclability up to four cycles highlighted the desirability of PANI@CoFe2O4/g-CN nanocomposites for the abatement of wide range of pollutants.(c) 2022 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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