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Photodegradation of organic compounds using chromium oxide-doped nano-sulfated zirconia

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ZrO2 is considered a huge-gap semiconductor (band gap ≈ 5 eV). To improve the visible-light photocatalytic activities of ZrO2, an efficient Cr, SO4 2− co-doped ZrO2 photocatalyst was synthesized by the simple impregnation method followed by calcination at different calcination temperatures (300, 400, 500, and 600 °C) for 3 h. The synthesized photocatalysts were characterized by x-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy analysis, scanning electron microscopy analysis, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy analysis, FT-IR spectroscopic technique, potentiometric titration and UV–Vis spectroscopy analysis. ZrO2 co-doped with Cr and SO4 2− shows more efficiency than SO4 2−-doped ZrO2 in several aspects like surface structure, decreasing electron–hole recombination and band gap energy. The photodegradation of methylene blue dye for SO4 2−-doped ZrO2 and Cr, SO4 2−-co-doped ZrO2 has been investigated. The photocatalytic reaction confirmed that the co-doped ZrO2 photocatalyst showed higher photocatalytic activity than mono-doped ZrO2.

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    Shady Mohamed El-Dafrawy, Mervat Farag & Shawky Mohamed Hassan

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El-Dafrawy, S.M., Farag, M. & Hassan, S.M. Photodegradation of organic compounds using chromium oxide-doped nano-sulfated zirconia. Res Chem Intermed 43, 6343–6365 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11164-017-2993-5

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