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JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY A-CHEMISTRY
Volume 349, Issue -, Pages 138-147Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2017.09.011
Keywords
Iodine-doped TiO2 NPs; Visible active photocatalyst; Textile effluent degradation; Sunlight irradiation
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- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India (CSIR) [09/809(0015)/2012-EMR-I]
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Iodine-doped TiO2 nanoparticles (I@TiO2 NPs), in different mol percentage (mol%) of iodine with anatase phase only, have been prepared by using simple sol-gel method. Samples were characterized by various physico-chemical techniques. Physico-chemical characterization revealed that crystallite size, surface hydroxylation, and tuning of optical band gap towards visible region of composites increases with increase in dopant concentration upto 7.0 mol% in TiO2 host lattice. Thereafter, the samples were used to photocatalytic degradation of textile effluent (TE) as well as Rhodamine B (RhB) under sunlight irradiation directly. The progress of photodegradation reaction was monitored by UV-visible spectroscopy. The chemical oxygen demand (COD) of TE samples was evaluated before and after photocatalytic studies. During photocatalytic reaction, the effect of pH and amount of catalyst on the rate of degradation reaction was also studied. It is clearly shown that I@TiO2 particles result in the enhancement of the degradation ability of RhB as well as TE in sunlight. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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