A facile hydrothermal method was employed for the synthesis of ZnS hollow spheres by using thioglycolic acid (TGA) as a capping agent under hydrothermal condition. The obtained products were characterized by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS). No diffraction peaks from other crystalline forms were detected, the synthesized ZnS hierarchical hollow spheres were relatively pure. The photocatalytic activities of as-synthesized samples were evaluated by the degradation of methyl orange (MO) and rhodamine B (RhB) under the condition of visible-light irradiation. The higher the initial MO and RhB concentrations, the longer it takes to reach the same residual concentration, implying that the apparent rates of MO and RhB degradation decrease with increase in the initial MO and RhB concentration. The increase of photocatalyst dosage from 0.2 to 0.6 g/L results in a sharp increase of the photodegradation efficiency from 68.50 to 92.66% after 180 min of visible-light irradiation for MO degradation, and the increase of photocatalyst dosage from 0.2 to 0.4 g/L results in a distinct increase of the photodegradation efficiency from 65.72 to 90.85% after 180 min of visible-light irradiation for RhB. The elution of intermediates generated in the photocatalytic mineralization of MO and RhB resulted in an increase in total organic carbon (TOC) level, leading to the difference between TOC removal rate and MO and RhB decolorization rates.
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Published in Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 83, No. 6, pp. 959–963, November–December, 2016.
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Han, Z., Wang, N., Zhang, H. et al. A Facile Hydrothermal Route for Synthesis of ZnS Hollow Spheres with Photocatalytic Degradation of Dyes Under Visible Light. J Appl Spectrosc 83, 1007–1011 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10812-017-0398-2
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