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Aluminum-Doped Cobalt Ferrite as an Efficient Photocatalyst for the Abatement of Methylene Blue

Abbas, N; Rubab, N; Sadiq, N; Manzoor, S; Khan, MI; Fernandez Garcia, J; Barbosa Aragao, I; ... Yasmin, G; + view all (2020) Aluminum-Doped Cobalt Ferrite as an Efficient Photocatalyst for the Abatement of Methylene Blue. Water , 12 (8) , Article 2285. 10.3390/w12082285. Green open access

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Abstract

The present study is aimed to access the photodegradation efficiency of methylene blue dye using CoFe_{2}O_{4} and Co_{0.1}Al_{0.03}Fe_{0.17}O_{0.4} nanoparticles. The synthesis of spinel ferrites nanoparticles was performed by a facile sol-gel method. The synthesized nanoparticles were characterized by FTIR, XRD, SEM, EDS, Nitrogen adsorption/desorption and UV–Visible spectroscopy. The XRD studies confirmed the spinel cubic structure of ferrite. It was also found that the crystallinity increases at an annealing temperature of 800 °C. The application of these nanoparticles for methylene blue’s photocatalytic degradation was explored and also the optimization of several parameters involving dye’s concentration, amount of catalyst and pH of the solution was done. Photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue showed that at pH 11, using 200 W visible light bulb and in 120 min; 93% methylene blue dye was degraded by using 0.1 g of Co_{0.1}Al_{0.03}Fe_{0.17}O_{0.4}.

Type: Article
Title: Aluminum-Doped Cobalt Ferrite as an Efficient Photocatalyst for the Abatement of Methylene Blue
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.3390/w12082285
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.3390/w12082285
Language: English
Additional information: © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: aluminum-doped cobalt ferrite; sol-gel synthesis; methylene blue; photocatalytic degradation
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Chemical Engineering
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10113179
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