There
is
a
need
for
industries
to
adopt
greener
strategies
treat
wastewater
effluents
like
textile
dyes.
In
the
light
of
alarming
environmental
conditions,
there
an
expanding
centre
around
usage
waste
materials
reap
compounded
benefits.
A
low-cost
marine
biowaste
based
CaO/MoS2
photocatalyst
synthesized
using
ball
milling
reactive
mixing
solid
powders
proposed
in
this
study.
The
mass
ratio
CaO
and
MoS2
were
optimized
photocatalytic
reduction
Methylene
Blue
(MB)
as
probe
dye
actual
industrial
dye.
It
was
found
that
45CaO/55MoS2
(45-CaMo)
outperformed
all
proportions
including
conventionally
popular
TiO2.
70%
MB
observed
get
discoloured
within
just
10
minutes
exposure
sunlight
giving
pseudo
first
order
(PFO)
rate
constant
0.064
min-1.
UV-Vis-NIR
spectroscopy
calculations
reveal
activity
UV,
visible
IR
regions
with
direct
Z-scheme
mechanism
its
probable
charge
modulation
technique.
This
work
can
be
reached
out
debasement
other
comparable
organic
pollutants
present
water
resources
renewable
energy.
Nanomaterials,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
13(14), P. 2125 - 2125
Published: July 21, 2023
A
series
of
Ti2O3@TiO2
core-shell
heterojunction
composite
photocatalysts
with
different
internal
electric
fields
were
synthesized
using
simple
heat
treatment
methods.
The
composites
characterized
by
means
SEM,
XRD,
PL,
UV-Vis,
BET,
SPV,
TEM
and
other
related
analytical
techniques.
Tetracycline
(TC)
was
used
as
the
degradation
target
to
evaluate
photocatalytic
performance
composites.
relevant
test
results
show
that
optimized
materials
has
been
significantly
enhanced
compared
Ti2O3,
while
rate
increased
from
28%
70.1%.
After
verification
via
several
testing
characterization
techniques,
excellent
catalytic
is
attributed
efficient
separation
efficiency
photogenerated
charge
carriers
derived
built-in
field
formed
between
Ti2O3
TiO2.
When
recombination
electrons
holes
occupied,
more
charges
are
generated
reach
surface
photocatalyst,
thereby
improving
efficiency.
Thus,
this
work
provides
a
universal
strategy
enhance
coupling
it
TiO2
build
an
field.
