Investigation of the photocatalytic potential enhancement of silica monolith decorated tin oxide nanoparticles through experimental and theoretical studies

被引:40
作者
Khan, Idrees [1 ]
Khan, Adnan Ali [2 ]
Khan, Ibrahim [3 ]
Usman, Muhammad [4 ]
Sadiq, Muhammad [2 ]
Ali, Faiz [2 ]
Saeed, Khalid [1 ]
机构
[1] Bacha Khan Univ, Dept Chem, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
[2] Univ Malakand, Dept Chem, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
[3] King Fahd Univ Petr & Minerals, Ctr Integrat Petr Res, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia
[4] King Fahd Univ Petr & Minerals, Ctr Res Excellence Nanotechnol, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia
关键词
ORANGE II DYE; VISIBLE-LIGHT; METHYLENE-BLUE; SNO2; NANOPARTICLES; ZNO NANOPARTICLES; BAND-GAP; DEGRADATION; PHOTODEGRADATION; WATER;
D O I
10.1039/d0nj00996b
中图分类号
O6 [化学];
学科分类号
0703 ;
摘要
Photodegradation of organic pollutants is considered to be the most suitable and cheaper technique to counter decontamination issues. Metal nanoparticles are considered the most effective heterogeneous photocatalysts for photodegradation of organic pollutants, but neat nanoparticles agglomerate in the reaction medium and display less photocatalytic efficiency. Herein, silica monolith particles (SiO2) were synthesized and utilized as a support medium for the synthesis of SnO(2)nanoparticles to retard their agglomeration. Silica-supported tin oxide nanoparticles (SnO2/SiO(2)NPs) and neat tin oxide nanoparticles (SnO(2)NPs) were prepared through chemical reduction method and characterized by AFM, SEM, TEM, EDX and mapping, XRD, FTIR and zeta sizer. Morphological and mapping analyses revealed that SiO(2)increases the surface area of SnO(2)NPs and magnificently enhances their photocatalytic activity. The neat SnO(2)NPs are highly agglomerated and hence show less photocatalytic activity. XRD and FTIR analyses confirm the synthesis of SnO(2)NPs. The neat SnO(2)NPs have a PDI of 0.51, which reveal much variation in the particles' size and have a surface charge of -11.2 +/- 0.87 mV, which is not enough for the NPs' repulsion in suspended form and hence are agglomerated. The SnO2/SiO(2)NPs degraded about 94.58% and 93.73% orange II (O II) dye while SnO(2)NPs degraded 65.93% and 46.11% dye within 30 min irradiation under UV and visible light respectively. The enhanced photocatalytic activity of SnO2/SiO(2)NPs is due to the synergistic effect of rapid adsorption followed by drastic photodegradation of dye. The SnO2/SiO(2)NPs are much more sustainable than SnO(2)NPs due to easy recycling and washing and the recovered SnO2/SiO(2)NPs degraded about 83.38% of dye while SnO(2)degraded 21.91% within 30 min. In addition, the density functional theory (DFT) calculations show that the SnO2/SiO(2)NPs have greater adsorption capacity then pristine SiO(2)and SnO(2)surfaces, having shorter binding distances, a largerE(ads)value (4.29 eV) and a larger reduction in band gap.
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页码:13330 / 13343
页数:14
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