TY - JOUR
T1 - Composite of acicular rod-like ZnO nanoparticles and semiconducting polypyrrole photoactive under visible light irradiation for methylene blue dye photodegradation
AU - Ovando-Medina, Víctor M.
AU - López, Raúl G.
AU - Castillo-Reyes, Blanca E.
AU - Alonso-Dávila, Pedro A.
AU - Martínez-Gutiérrez, Hugo
AU - González-Ortega, Omar
AU - Farías-Cepeda, Lorena
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
PY - 2015/12/1
Y1 - 2015/12/1
N2 - Nanoparticles of zinc oxide (ZnO) with acicular rod-like morphology were synthesized using a bicontinuous microemulsion and coated with polypyrrole (PPy), by polymerization in the presence of dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate (AOT) surfactant with ammonium persulfate as oxidizing agent to obtain nanocomposites of ZnO/PPy. The resulting material was characterized by FTIR, Raman spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscopy. The synthesized nanocomposite consisted of ZnO nanoparticles immersed in a polypyrrole matrix with a conductivity of 6.4 × 10−6 S/cm. The synthesized nanocomposite was tested in the photodegradation of methylene blue (MB) dye under visible light irradiation resulting in photodegradation efficiency of 95.2 % after 60 min of irradiation using 3.6 g/L of nanocomposite in an aqueous solution of MB at 20 mg/L. Pseudo first-order kinetics were used to describe the photodegradation reactions.
AB - Nanoparticles of zinc oxide (ZnO) with acicular rod-like morphology were synthesized using a bicontinuous microemulsion and coated with polypyrrole (PPy), by polymerization in the presence of dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate (AOT) surfactant with ammonium persulfate as oxidizing agent to obtain nanocomposites of ZnO/PPy. The resulting material was characterized by FTIR, Raman spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscopy. The synthesized nanocomposite consisted of ZnO nanoparticles immersed in a polypyrrole matrix with a conductivity of 6.4 × 10−6 S/cm. The synthesized nanocomposite was tested in the photodegradation of methylene blue (MB) dye under visible light irradiation resulting in photodegradation efficiency of 95.2 % after 60 min of irradiation using 3.6 g/L of nanocomposite in an aqueous solution of MB at 20 mg/L. Pseudo first-order kinetics were used to describe the photodegradation reactions.
KW - Nanocomposites
KW - Photocatalyst
KW - Visible light
KW - ZnO/polypyrrole
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U2 - 10.1007/s00396-015-3717-2
DO - 10.1007/s00396-015-3717-2
M3 - Artículo
SN - 0303-402X
VL - 293
SP - 3459
EP - 3469
JO - Colloid and Polymer Science
JF - Colloid and Polymer Science
IS - 12
ER -