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NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
Volume 46, Issue 24, Pages 11851-11861Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d2nj00785a
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- CSIR, India
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The growing contamination of water with endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs) is posing a serious threat to human and animal health. Photocatalytic degradation is a promising approach for degrading EDCs due to its low energy consumption and absence of secondary pollution. In this study, the perovskite photocatalyst bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3) was modified to enhance the degradation efficiency of EDCs. The modified BiFeO3-Bi2S3 photocatalyst exhibited improved visible light harvesting, faster charge transfer kinetics, greater degree of excitons separation, and higher dielectric constant, resulting in enhanced degradation of EDCs.
The growing contamination of water with endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs) is posing a serious threat to the reproductive, neuro, and other endocrine-related functions in humans and animals. One of the promising approach for degrading EDCs is photocatalytic degradation, because of its low energy consumption, mild reaction conditions and the absence of any secondary pollution. The visible light-active perovskite photocatalyst- bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3) possesses distinctive intrinsic polarization properties and its modification to design heterostructured BiFeO3-NiS2, BiFeO3-Bi2S3, and BiFeO3- NaNbO3 photocatalysts for EDCs degradation is reported. Upon modification of BiFeO3 with Bi2S3, the morphology changes from nanoparticles to rod-like structures. The BiFeO3-Bi2S3 photocatalyst exhibits higher degradation efficiency (98% and 96% for 17-beta-estradiol and estrone, respectively, at pH 8) as compared to those of bare and modified BiFeO3 and follows pseudo-first-order kinetics. The dielectric constant (57300) and polarization measurements undertaken demonstrate that the high dipole constant and high degree of polarization observed in the case of BiFeO3-Bi2S3 facilitate efficient separation of excitons and high dielectric Loss owing to better conductivity enabling faster charge-carrier transfer kinetics, which eventually give rise to improved degradation of EDCs. Such improvement in the EDCs degradation efficacy is ascribed to the synergized effect of enhanced visible light harvesting, faster charge transfer kinetics, greater degree of excitons separation, and higher dielectric constant.
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