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Facile synthesis of MnO2/g-C3N4 for photocatalytic reduction of methylene blue dye under visible light

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Water pollution has recently come to the forefront of people’s minds because of the widespread textile dye contamination. It suffers from a wide variety of harmful chemicals in the textile, cosmetics, food, and paint industries and these are removed by photocatalysis. Photocatalytic degradation is considered an efficient approach for the elimination of toxic pollutants from industrial effluents. In this work, MnO2/g-C3N4 nanocomposite was developed hydrothermally for photocatalytic mineralization of methylene blue (MB) dye. The surface study revealed that MnO2/g-C3N4 shows a greater surface area (97 m2 g−1) attributed to the g-CN nanosheet. The photocatalytic efficiency of MnO2, g-C3N4 & MnO2/g-C3N4 materials was additionally ascertained via the degradation of MB, which was considered to be a model dye. The MnO2, g-C3N4 & MnO2/g-C3N4 display the photocatalytic efficiency of 72.34, 85.81, and 94.32%, respectively. According to the TOC study, the MnO2/g-C3N4 nanocomposite showed a degradation rate of 71.23% over a period of 150 min. The scavenger analysis revealed that charge species (hydroxyl, hole and superoxide anion) play a substantial part in the photodegradation of dyes. The results show that the fabricated nanocomposite shows maximum photocatalytic efficacy compared to pristine material due to the appropriate bandgap along with unique structural features. The developed catalyst not only has the potential to degrade the dye and it can also work in other energy storage applications.

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The Deanship of Scientific Research at King Khalid University is greatly appreciated for funding this work under grant number (R.G.P-1/208/44). Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Researchers Supporting Project number (PNURSP2024R55), and Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A.M.A. Henaish thanks the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (Ural Federal University Program of Development within the Priority-2030 Program) is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Government College University Lahore, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan

    Muhammad Abdullah

  2. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Jazan University, P.O. Box 2097, 45142, Jazan, Saudi Arabia

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  3. Department of physics, College of Science, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, P.O. Box 84428, 11671, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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  5. Department of Physics, Government College University Lahore, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan

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    Salma Aman

  7. Research Center for Advanced Materials Science (RCAMS), King Khalid University, 61413, Abha, Saudi Arabia

    Abdullah G. Al-Sehemi

  8. Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Khalid University, 61413, Abha, Saudi Arabia

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Abdullah, M., Alahmari, S.D., Alharbi, F.F. et al. Facile synthesis of MnO2/g-C3N4 for photocatalytic reduction of methylene blue dye under visible light. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 35, 517 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-024-12166-7

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