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Study of enhanced photodegradation of methylene blue in presence of grown SnSe nanoparticles

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In this report, we prepared three different SnSe nanoparticles (SnSe NPs-1,2,3) by using chemical precipitation route varying the reducing agent ratio (NaBH4). The formed crystal structure showed orthorhombic crystal phase. The average size of the SnSe NPs varied from ≈12.3 nm to ≈17.6 nm. The particle morphology has been observed from FESEM images. The optical absorption and emission study showed the variation of band gap ranges from 2.21 eV to 2.4 eV along with red emission. TCSPC study showed the variation of life time of carrier for different size NPs. The photodegradation of methylene blue (MB) in the presence of three different sizes SnSe NPs (SnSe NPs-1,2,3) with different doses has been studied under visible light. The degradation percentage increases with increase of dose concentration for each type of grown NPs. Also, with the increase of dose concentration the degradation time is reduced. The degradation efficiency is maximum for smaller size (≈12.3 nm) nanoparticles and the enhanced degradation efficiency is possibly due to the participation of the surface trapped electrons. The SnSe NPs-2 showed maximum 99% degradation of MB within a time span of 15 min.

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Authors acknowledged to the UGC-SAP and DST-FIST sponsored department of Physics, Vidyasagar University for research facilities. Author R. Samui acknowledges Higher education, Government of West Bengal for providing SVMCM scholarship. Authors are acknowledged to the central research facilities, IIT Kharagpur for various characterization facilities.

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SS & AKB: assisted to select the topic of the research and supervise the complete study. RS: prepared the samples, performed the experiments and collected the data. All the authors helped to analyse the data. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Samui, R., Bhunia, A.K. & Saha, S. Study of enhanced photodegradation of methylene blue in presence of grown SnSe nanoparticles. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 34, 742 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-023-10169-4

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