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Synthesis of copper oxide nano-rice structures for enhancement of photocatalytic activity under natural sunlight

Author(s) -

Roonak Abdul Salam A. Alkareem

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

mustansiriyah journal for sciences and education

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2709-3174

pISSN - 2709-3166

DOI - 10.47831/mjse.v20i5.736

Subject(s) - methylene blue , photocatalysis , scanning electron microscope , copper oxide , copper , hydrothermal circulation , nano , degradation (telecommunications) , oxide , materials science , nuclear chemistry , field emission microscopy , diffraction , chemical engineering , chemistry , metallurgy , catalysis , composite material , optics , organic chemistry , physics , telecommunications , computer science , engineering

In this work, copper oxide (CuO) nano-rice structure was prepared by hydrothermal method. The prepared samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM), and UV-visible spectrophotometer. CuO nano-rice structure showed high photocatalytic activity towards degradation of methylene blue (MB). Hydrothermally growth of CuO provided uniformly distributed nano-rice structures with high degradation efficiency (90.41%) and rate constant (kt) 16.6 × 10-2 min-1 for methylene blue degradation.

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