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The development of nanostructures based on interaction of organic matrix and metal oxide particles (such as polypyrrole/zinc oxide composites) introduces interesting advantages due to synergistic/complementary photocatalytic activity of resulting material. Particularly, the available high surface area of resulting composite contributes with minimal aggregation of metal oxide nanoparticles and reduces the electron/hole pair recombination rate (if applied as a photocatalyst). Results indicate that superior performance is detected for composite of polypyrrole/zinc oxide applied in the photodegradation of rhodamine B and rhodamine 6G in comparison with degradation established by colloidal photocatalyst (surfactant/zinc oxide/dye). Progressive cleavage of organic dye molecule takes place in substitution to typical N-deethylation process.
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Nascimento, K.N.d.S., de Oliveira, M.C.A., Oliveira, P.S. et al. Photocatalytic activity of ZnO composites against rhodamine B and rhodamine 6G. Fibers Polym 16, 2177–2183 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12221-015-5456-x
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