Affiliation:
1. Ipsita Som Prof. Rajnarayan Saha Department of Chemistry National Institute of Technology Durgapur 713209 India
2. Dr. Sourav Biswas School of Chemistry Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram Kerala 69551 India
3. Santanu Dey Department of Physics National Institute of Technology Durgapur West Bengal 713209 India
4. Prof. Rajnarayan Saha Centre for Research on Environment and Water (CREW) National Institute of Technology Durgapur 713209 India
Abstract
AbstractA new study has successfully fabricated a CuO/CuSe heterojunction nanocomposite using an eco‐friendly green method, which can be used as a potential photocatalyst and for phenol sensing applications. The nanocomposite has been characterized using various microscopic and spectroscopic methods, and it was found to have a direct band gap value of 2.14 eV, which indicates it can exploit visible light for its properties. The nanocomposite was tested for photocatalytic degradation of two dyes, Rhodamine B (RhB) and Methyl Orange (MO), and achieved removal efficiencies of 99.32 % and 88.20 %, respectively, using hydrogen peroxide. The nanocomposite was also found to have potentiality for practical use in phenol sensing, detecting concentrations of 0.2–1.4 μM phenol in solution and demonstrating 96–100 % phenol recovery in real water samples.
Funder
National Institute of Technology Durgapur