Rafique, Muhammad;
Khalid, NR;
Irshad, Muneeb;
Shafiq, Falak;
Usman, Muhammad;
Fouad, Yasser;
Imran, Muhammad;
... Ashraf, Waqar Muhammad; + view all
(2023)
Visible light‐active pure and lanthanum‐doped copper oxide nanostructures for photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue dye and hydrogen production.
Energy Science & Engineering
10.1002/ese3.1476.
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Abstract
Clean water and renewable energy sources are becoming increasingly important in the current era, as well as a future challenge, and one of the potential solutions is photocatalysis. In the current study, a simple one-step hydrothermal technique is employed to fabricate the pure and La-doped CuO (0%, 1%, 3%, 5%, and 7%) photocatalysts. The influence of varying La concentration on structure, morphology, and optical properties is determined by scanning electron microscope (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), ultraviolet (UV)–visible spectroscopy, and photoluminescence. SEM showed that synthesized nanostructures are irregularly spherical and transform into needle-like nanostructures on increasing La concentration. XRD revealed the monoclinic phase with a crystallite size of 15–23 nm. The UV–visible spectrum exhibited a decrease in the band gap of La-doped CuO needle-like nanostructures from UV to visible light. The composition and purity of synthesized nanostructures are evaluated via the energy-dispersive X-ray spectrum which revealed that needle-like nanostructures are pure without any impurity traces. The synthesized nanostructures were used as a photocatalyst against methylene blue dye to examine their photocatalytic activity. The synthesized CuO-3La photocatalyst exhibited excellent photocatalytic performance of dye degradation and hydrogen production 95.3 μmol h−1 g−1 with more than 97% cyclic stability. Therefore, the synthesized La-doped CuO nanostructures are potential candidates for photocatalytic water splitting and hydrogen evolution.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Visible light‐active pure and lanthanum‐doped copper oxide nanostructures for photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue dye and hydrogen production |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/ese3.1476 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ese3.1476 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Dye degradation, hydrogen energy, metal oxide, photocatalysis, wastewater treatment |
| 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/10170019 |
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