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Mixed oxide-polyaniline composite-coated woven cotton fabrics for the visible light catalyzed degradation of hazardous organic pollutants

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Clean water and sea free of organic pollutants are among the 17 United Nation Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this global concern, the design of efficient, stable and recyclable catalytic materials remains challenging. In this context, we designed a series of mixed oxide-modified cotton fabrics and their related composites and interrogated their propensity to catalyze the degradation of methyl orange (MO) (a model pollutant). More specifically, functional cotton fabrics (CF) coated with RuO2–TiO2 based-photocatalysts were obtained by dip-coating method at neutral pH. A layer of Polyaniline (PANI) was prepared by in situ oxidative polymerization of the aniline monomer on 4-diphenylamine diazonium salt (DPA) modified-RuO2–TiO2 nanoparticles (NPs) coated-CF. The modified CFs catalyzed photodegradation and mineralization of MO under visible light, which depended on polyaniline mass loading. The CF/RuO2–TiO2/DPA@PANI obtained by in situ polymerization was the best catalyst due to DPA adhesive layer for polyaniline to RuO2–TiO2, and the strong attraction force between cellulose OH groups and anilinium during polymerization. The photodegradation rate constant was 0.101, 0.0532, 0.0775 and 0.0828 min−1 for RuO2–TiO2/DPA@PANI, RuO2–TiO2, RuO2–TiO2/PANI and RuO2–TiO2/DPA/PANI coated-CFs, respectively. The catalytic activity is favored by the photoactive species (OH·,\({\mathrm{O}}_{2}^{-}\)) which are formed by the excitation of electrons under visible light but also by the electronic exchanges at the RuO2//TiO2, RuO2–TiO2//PANI and RuO2–TiO2/PANI//CF interfaces. CF/RuO2–TiO2/DPA/PANI photocatalyst was stable under simulated sunlight and reusable three times. A mechanism is proposed to account for the efficient CF catalytic properties.

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FM would like to thank Campus France for the provision of PROFAS B + fellowship. All authors are indebted to NATO for financial support through the SfP program (CATALTEX project No 984842). AMK wishes to thank the French Government for funding his contribution through a fellowship granted by the French Embassy in Egypt (Institut Français d’Egypte).

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  1. Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux (LPCM), Faculté des Sciences, Université Mouloud Mammeri, 15000, Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria

    Fatima Mousli & Abdelaziz Kadri

  2. Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS, ITODYS (UMR 7086), 75013, Paris, France

    Fatima Mousli & François Maurel

  3. Photochemistry Department, National Research Centre, 33 El-Buhouth Street, Dokki, 12622, Giza, Egypt

    Ahmed M. Khalil

  4. Université Paris Est, CNRS, ICMPE (UMR 7182), 94320, Thiais, France

    Mohamed M. Chehimi

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Mousli, F., Khalil, A.M., Maurel, F. et al. Mixed oxide-polyaniline composite-coated woven cotton fabrics for the visible light catalyzed degradation of hazardous organic pollutants. Cellulose 27, 7823–7846 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-020-03302-7

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