Banca de DEFESA: DÉBORA FERREIRA DOS SANTOS
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DATE: 11/02/2022
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência (meet.google.com/yix-cttk-iuu)
TITLE:
Study of the Photocatalytic and Optical Properties of the SrMoO4/g-C3N4 heterojunction via sonochemical synthesis with temperature control
KEY WORDS:
sonochemistry; heterostructure; SrMoO4; g-C3N4; photocatalysis; photoluminescence; temperature
PAGES: 118
BIG AREA: Engenharias
AREA: Engenharia de Materiais e Metalúrgica
SUBÁREA: Materiais Não-Metálicos
SPECIALTY: Cerâmicos
SUMMARY:
Advanced Oxidative Processes (OAP’s) based on heterogeneous photocatalysis have been extensively used as an effective alternative for the treatment of effluents. These processes use the semiconductor as a catalyst due to its electronic band structure. However, many semiconductors undergo charge carrier recombination, limiting their efficiency in degrading the organic contaminant. One of the strategies to overcome this problem is the heterojunction synthesis, which consists of joining materials that share the same interface, providing the spatial separation of charge carriers, consequently increasing the photocatalytic efficiency.
In this work, particles of the SrMoO4/x g-C3N4 heterostructure, where x = 0; 0.1; 0.3; and 0.5 grams, were synthesized in a single step by sonochemical method, during 30 minutes at controlled temperatures of 15, 30 and 45ºC. The obtained particles were structurally characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), morphologically by field emission scanning electron microscopy (SEM-FEG), optical properties were investigated by UV-Vis spectroscopy and photoluminescence (PL) techniques. and photocatalytic properties were evaluated using UV radiation in the degradation of organic contaminants Methylene Blue (MB), Rhodamine B (RhB) and Crystal Violet (VC). The XRD patterns for pure strontium molybdate (SrMoO4) did not show the presence of secondary phases, while the diffractograms for the heterostructures showed a shift from the main peak. SEM analysis showed that pure SrMoO4 particles have agglomerated rod-like morphology, and that in heterojunctions these rods are encased in graphitic carbon nitride nanosheets (g-C3N4). The UV-Vis analysis confirmed the high bandgap of pure SrMoO4 (4.4eV) with absorption for shorter wavelengths (270nm), while the heterostructures had a decrease in the bandgap (~4.2eV) and an increase in the absorption range (~436nm) with increasing presence of g-C3N4. The PL spectra of the pure SrMoO4 samples showed a broad barda with predominant emission in the blue-green region, while the heterojunctions showed a narrower band with much higher intensity than the pure samples, with predominant emission in the blue color. The results of the photocatalytic tests indicated that the increase of g-C3N4 increased the photocatalytic efficiency in the degradation of the contaminants, being the sample with 0.5g of g-C3N4 synthesized at a temperature of 30ºC with greater efficiency in the degradation of the dyes: 99.58% , 100% and 98.65% for MB, RhB and VC dyes, respectively. To analyze the applicability, the dyes used were mixed, where the sample with 0.5g of g-C3N4 degraded the MB, RhB and VC components by 96.5%, 64% and 76.3%, respectively. Three reuse cycles were performed, with final photocatalytic efficiency of 96.4%, 76.3% and 87.4% for MB, RhB and VC dyes, respectively.
BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1883170 - MAURICIO ROBERTO BOMIO DELMONTE
Interna - 1802888 - FABIANA VILLELA DA MOTTA
Externo à Instituição - MARCIO DALDIN TEODORO - UFSCAR