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Effect of Annealing Temperature on Copper-Doped Nickel Oxide Nanomaterials for Efficient Degradation of Methylene Blue Under Solar Irradiation

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Copper-doped nickel oxide nanomaterials (Cu-NiOx@300, Cu-NiOx@500 and Cu-NiOx@700) were prepared by co-precipitation of Ni(II) and Cu(II) hydroxides followed by treatment of the solid material at different annealing temperatures (300°C, 500°C and 700°C). The samples were characterized using a combination of spectroscopic and microscopic techniques including infrared (IR), UV-visible, x-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) and energy-dispersive x-ray (EDX) techniques. While the XRD diffractograms indicated that the crystallinity and crystallite size of Cu-NiOx@300, Cu-NiOx@500 and Cu-NiOx@700 gradually increased with a decrease in specific surface area, the UV-visible study suggested a decrease in the band energy gap with increasing annealing temperature. An increase in lattice constants for the Cu-NiOx nanomaterials in comparison with NiO suggested the successful doping of Cu into the lattice of NiO. From the FE-SEM images it was also evident that the particle size increased with increasing annealing temperature, whereas elemental mapping indicated that Ni, Cu and O atoms were well dispersed on the Cu-NiOx matrixes. Following pseudo-first-order reaction kinetics, Cu-NiOx@700 exhibited the most efficient photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue (MB) (k700 = 0.0109 min−1) compared with Cu-NiOx@500 (k500 = 0.0053 min−1) and Cu-NiOx@300 (k300 = 0.0035 min−1) under solar irradiation.

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This research work was sponsored by TEQIP-III research scheme from IGIT, Sarang, Odisha. N. M. and D. T. are grateful to the National Project Implementation Unit (NPIU), MHRD, India for the Collaborative Research Scheme (CRS). The authors acknowledge Dr. Barsha Dash, IMMT, Bhubaneswar, Dr. Rohit Kumar Rana, IICT, Hyderabad and Dr. Srikanta Patra, IIT Bhunabeswar, India for their invaluable suggestions in preparing the manuscript.

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Tripathy, D., Panda, B.B. & Maity, N. Effect of Annealing Temperature on Copper-Doped Nickel Oxide Nanomaterials for Efficient Degradation of Methylene Blue Under Solar Irradiation. J. Electron. Mater. 51, 3598–3605 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-022-09591-x

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