Discharging untreated and unmonitored dye waste poses a significant threat to the influential and thriving textile dyeing sectors of several countries. The rigid chemical bonding of that dye hinders its degradation, making photocatalytic processes a superior method for degrading industrial dyes. In the present work, zinc oxide (ZnO) and tin oxide (SnO₂) on reduced graphene oxide (rGO) nanosheets were prepared to produce a ZnO-SnO₂@rGO nanocomposite as a nano-photocatalyst via a simple, eco-friendly, one-pot green synthesis approach employing Bougainvillaea glabra flower extract (BGFE) as a green reducing agent. The synthesized ZnO-SnO₂@rGO nanocomposite was characterized through various analytical techniques, including XRD, FT-IR, UV‒Vis, SEM, and XPS. XRD analysis confirmed the formation of hexagonal wurtzite ZnO and tetragonal-phased SnO₂ nano-crystallites on rGO with a crystallite size of 2.19 nm. The optical bandgap was calculated and found to be in the photon energy range of 2.6 eV for the ZnO-SnO₂@rGO nanocomposite. Morphological analysis confirmed the formation of rod-shaped ZnO nanoparticles and spherical SnO₂ clusters anchored well onto the layered rGO sheets. The ability of the ZnO-SnO₂@rGO nanocomposite to degrade Coomassie Brilliant Blue R 250 (CBB R 250) dye under sunlight irradiation was examined. The ZnO-SnO₂@rGO nanocomposite effectively degraded 98.8% and 96.7% of the different dye dosages of CBB R 250 dye within 60 and 100 min under solar irradiation, respectively. The ZnO-SnO₂@rGO catalyst demonstrated reliable performance during seven consecutive cycles of reusability, and XRD examination further validated its structural stability.
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