TY - JOUR
T1 - Studying the Effects of Cu Doping on Structure and Photoluminescence Properties of SnO2Nanoparticle with Its Effectiveness towards the Mineralization of Toxic Industrial Dye
AU - Mishra, Prasanta Kumar
AU - Panda, Nihar Ranjan
AU - Pati, Satya Prakash
AU - Biswal, Susanta Kumar
AU - Sahu, Dojalisa
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Electrochemical Society ("ECS"). Published on behalf of ECS by IOP Publishing Limited.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The structural and optical properties of tin oxide (SnO2) nanoparticles doped with Cu2+ ions have been investigated. Suppression of grain growth of tetragonal rutile structured SnO2 was observed with copper doping which generates more and more nucleation sites, resulting weak crystallinity in Cu-SnO2. Morphological analysis by FESEM showed the formation of nanoparticles with uniform size and shape for the pristine sample which altered significantly with copper doping. The optical absorption spectra of the samples show the compression of the band gap (BG) of SnO2 with Cu doping which is due to the creation of defect states linked with oxygen vacancies. The photoluminescence (PL) spectra of the doped samples possess enhanced visible emissions, which is mainly due to the oxygen vacant defects generated by the doping of copper impurity. The degradation efficiency of Cu-SnO2 was found to be higher (91.32%) in degrading Congo red dye as compared to pure SnO2 owing to a better change separation efficiency and prohibition of e - -h + recombination. The effect of photocatalyst loading, initial dye concentration, and pH on degradation efficiency was also studied in detail and the prepared nanocatalysts were found to be stable even after fourth cycle of degradation.
AB - The structural and optical properties of tin oxide (SnO2) nanoparticles doped with Cu2+ ions have been investigated. Suppression of grain growth of tetragonal rutile structured SnO2 was observed with copper doping which generates more and more nucleation sites, resulting weak crystallinity in Cu-SnO2. Morphological analysis by FESEM showed the formation of nanoparticles with uniform size and shape for the pristine sample which altered significantly with copper doping. The optical absorption spectra of the samples show the compression of the band gap (BG) of SnO2 with Cu doping which is due to the creation of defect states linked with oxygen vacancies. The photoluminescence (PL) spectra of the doped samples possess enhanced visible emissions, which is mainly due to the oxygen vacant defects generated by the doping of copper impurity. The degradation efficiency of Cu-SnO2 was found to be higher (91.32%) in degrading Congo red dye as compared to pure SnO2 owing to a better change separation efficiency and prohibition of e - -h + recombination. The effect of photocatalyst loading, initial dye concentration, and pH on degradation efficiency was also studied in detail and the prepared nanocatalysts were found to be stable even after fourth cycle of degradation.
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U2 - 10.1149/2162-8777/ac0cc6
DO - 10.1149/2162-8777/ac0cc6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85111087506
VL - 10
JO - ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology
JF - ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology
SN - 2162-8769
IS - 7
M1 - 071006
ER -