Fluorescent aggregates formed by self-assembly of a hexaphenylbenzene based derivative serve as a reactor and a stabilizer for the formation of ferromagnetic iron oxide (α-Fe2O3) nanoparticles in aqueous medium at room temperature. These α-Fe2O3 nanoparticles showed excellent catalytic activity in palladium, copper and amine free Sonogashira cross coupling reactions and also in photocatalytic d...

Introduction: Textile industries produce large volume of colored dye effluents which are toxic and removal of dyes from wastewater is a significant environmental issue. Advanced oxidation process (AOPs) is alternative method for the complete degradation many organic pollutants. ZnO and TiO2 are important photocatalysts with high catalytic activity that have attracted much research attention. ...

In this research, ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) were synthesized using a binary Zn(II) Schiff-base complex. The complex heat-treated to prepare ZnO nanoparticles via thermal decomposition route at a temperature of 500 °C. The formation of single-phase ZnO nanoparticles and their microstructures were studied by XRD pattern, SEM and TEM observation. The photo-degradation characteristic of the as-prepar...

Barium Oxide(BaO) nanoparticles were synthesized by simple co-precipitation method and were investigated by the catalytic activity of synthesized barium oxide nanopaticles was enumerated by epoxidation of styrene. The reaction was carried out and the product was obtained at higher efficiency. Particularly, the photocatalytic efficiency was estimated by degradation of Rhodamine-B (RhB) dye using...

This paper describes the basics of photocatalysis on semiconductors, mainly on TiO2 and the application of photocatalytic processes for water purification from organic and inorganic matter as well as metal removal introduced in order to improve the photocatalytic action of titanium dioxide. The photocatalytic activity of anatase phases of nanocrystalline TiO2 for the degradation of different su...

In this study, CN-TiO₂ was modified with cryptomelane octahedral molecular sieves (OMS-2) by the sol-gel method based on the self-assembly technique to enhance its photocatalytic activity under the daylight irradiation. The synthesized samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), UV-vis spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and porosimeter analysis. The results...

The photocatalytic activity of nano-Bi2O3 was evaluated in degradation of rhodamine B (RhB) as a model of dye pollutant from waste waters. Nano sized Bi2O3 was synthesized using the chemical precipitation method. The as-prepared sample was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and Fourier transform infrared spect...

Au-BiVO(4) heterogeneous nanostructures have been successfully prepared through in situ growth of gold nanoparticles on BiVO(4) microtubes and nanosheets via a cysteine-linking strategy. The experimental results reveal that these Au-BiVO(4) heterogeneous nanostructures exhibit much higher visible-light photocatalytic activities than the individual BiVO(4) microtubes and nanosheets for both dye ...

The photocatalytic degradation of Diamond green B, a triarylmethane dye, has been investigated in aqueous heterogeneous solutions containing TiO2 nano- particles as photocatalysts. The factors effective on the degradation of Diamond green B, such as the amount of catalyst, the original concentration of dye, the effect of pH and illumination time were investigated under 400 W high pressure mercu...