Microwave-assisted synthesis of Ce-doped ZnO/CNT composite with enhanced photo-catalytic activity

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• 作者：Md. Elias^a ; ^b ; Md. Khairul Amin^b ; ^c ; Shakhawat H. Firoz^d ; Md. Asjad Hossain^b ; Sonia Akter^b ; Md. Awlad Hossain^a ; Md. Nizam Uddin^b ; Iqbal Ahmed Siddiquey^b ; ^{iqbal_siddiquey@yahoo.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Composites ; Microwave processing ; Functional applications ; Optical properties
• 刊名：Ceramics International
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：43
• 期：1
• 页码：84-91
• 全文大小：1490 K

文摘

This manuscript reports a successful additive free and fast energy-efficient microwave-assisted synthesis of nanocrystalline Ce-doped ZnO/CNT composite without calcinations. The structure and morphology of nanocrystalline Ce-doped ZnO/CNT was investigated by X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR), UV–visible and Photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy. The XRD results indicate that all of the samples are free of any impurity phase and crystallize only in the hexagonal structure. The synthesized Ce-doped ZnO/CNT composite achieved 96.4% photo-catalytic efficiency for methylene blue (MB) dye degradation under UV irradiation whereas the efficiency was only 34.6% for pure ZnO nanoparticles. Ce doping and insertion of CNTs into ZnO matrix enhanced the photo-catalytic activity of the composite by reducing the charge recombination. The experimental photodegradation data were well fitted to first-order, parabolic diffusion and modified Freundlich models. The results suggest that Ce-doped ZnO/CNT composite prepared by microwave irradiation method has a potential application in photo-catalysis which leads to the removal of harmful organic pollutant from the environment.