Photocatalytic Degradation of Levofloxacin by Cu doped TiO2 under Visible LED Light

Degradation performance of Cu-TiO2 photocatalytic materials against a widely used antibiotic drug levofloxacin (LFX) was investigated under visible LED light source 40 W. (0.25-1.0 wt%) nanomaterials are prepared through reverse micelle mediated modified sol-gel method. Characterization synthesized samples performed by XRD, UV-Vis, and DLS techniques. The doping 0.5 wt% copper in TiO2 shown lower crystallite size (5.79 nm) absorption characteristics with energy band gap 2.84 eV. photocatalyst has significant LFX degradation 75.5% catalyst loading 1 g/L initial pollutant concentration 50 mg/L.