Facile Synthesis of Poly(o-anisidine)/Graphitic Carbon Nitride/Zinc Oxide Composite for Photo-Catalytic Degradation of Congo Red Dye

Growing industry and its effluents create a serious environmental concern. Various industrial wastes such as toxic dyes and volatile organic compounds are posing a threat to a clean environment because of their non-biodegradable nature and high chemical stability. In recent years, the degradation of...

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Veröffentlicht in:Catalysts 2023-01, Vol.13 (2), p.239
Hauptverfasser: Jalalah, Mohammed, Nabi, Zubair, Anjum, Muhammad Naveed, Ahmad, Mirza Nadeem, Haq, Atta Ul, Qadir, Muhammad Bilal, Faisal, Mohd, Alsaiari, Mabkhoot, Irfan, Muhammad, Harraz, Farid A
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Zusammenfassung:Growing industry and its effluents create a serious environmental concern. Various industrial wastes such as toxic dyes and volatile organic compounds are posing a threat to a clean environment because of their non-biodegradable nature and high chemical stability. In recent years, the degradation of toxic dyes and drugs by photo-catalysts has gained much importance and proved a successful approach to capture light by hybrid photo-catalysts for decomposing toxic organic molecules. This work presents the synthesis of a poly(o-anisidine)-based composite with graphitic carbon nitride and zinc oxide (POA/g-C3N4/ZnO) and its utilization as a photo-catalyst. Various analytical techniques investigated the synthesized photo-catalysts’ chemical structure, crystallinity, and morphology. The degradation of Congo red dye evaluated the efficiency of the photo-catalyst in an aqueous medium under ultraviolet light. It was revealed that the photo-catalytic activity of the synthesized POA/g-C3N4/ZnO composites show 81.43%, 92.28%, and 87.05% degradation. This sustainable composite will be highly beneficial to treat industrial wastewater to make our environment clean.
ISSN:2073-4344
2073-4344
DOI:10.3390/catal13020239