Affiliation:
1. Applied Mineralogy Lab, Geology Department, Faculty of Science Al‐Azhar University Nasr City Cairo 11884 Egypt
2. Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science Damietta University New Damietta 34517 Egypt
3. Basic Science Department Higher Institute of Engineering and Technology New Damietta 34517 Egypt
Abstract
In this study, we report a simple technique for the pyrofabrication of a novel photocatalyst of titanium dioxide quantum dots‐kaolinite nanocomposite (TiO2‐QDs‐Kao) used for rhodamine B (RhB) dye degradation. The photocatalyst was characterized by using different analytical techniques, including XRD, XRF, XPS, FTIR, DTA/TGA, SEM–EDX, TEM, BET, BJH, ZP and UV–Vis DRS. The photocatalytic degradation of RhB was performed in aqueous solutions using the sustainable sunlight energy under atmospheric conditions and fixed neutral medium (pH = 7). The produced photocatalyst exhibited optical band gap energy of 2.85 eV, an improved large specific surface area of 107.724 m2/g with pore radius of 1.45 nm and total pore volume of 0.123 cm3/g. The study indicated a maximum 91% degradation efficiency of RhB after 120 min using the optimum dose 1,400 mg/l of the TiO2‐QDs‐Kao photocatalyst. The degradation of RhB dye fitted the Langmuir first‐order kinetics with rate constant 0.0151 min−1. The radical trapping experiments based on scavengers confirmed that the mechanism of photocatalytic degradation activity was potentially based on electron (e−) and hole (h+) conduction band. The potential energy of the valence and conduction bands EVB and ECB were calculated 2.73 and −0.12 eV, respectively. A triple reusability study confirmed a high stability of TiO2‐QDs‐Kao photocatalyst with detected degradation efficiencies of 91.0, 89.9, 88.8 and 87.5%, respectively.
Subject
Inorganic Chemistry,General Chemistry
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