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http://dx.doi.org/10.7473/EC.2017.52.2.131

Photocatalytic Degradation of 3-Nitrophenol with ZnO Nanoparticles under UV Irradiation  

Li, Jiulong (Department of Chemistry, Sahmyook University)
Ko, Weon Bae (Department of Chemistry, Sahmyook University)
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Elastomers and Composites / v.52, no.2, 2017 , pp. 131-135 More about this Journal
Abstract
Zinc nitrate hexahydrate [$Zn(NO_3){\cdot}6H_2O$] and sodium hydroxide [NaOH] were used as source reagents in the preparation of ZnO nanoparticles in an aqueous solution containing deionized water and ethanol in a ratio of 2:5 (v/v). ZnO nanoparticles were heated in an electric furnace at $700^{\circ}C$ for 2 h under an atmosphere of inert argon gas. The morphological and structural properties of the nanoparticles were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and powder X-ray diffractometry (XRD). UV-vis spectrophotometry was used to analyze the photocatalytic degradation of 3-nitrophenol with ZnO nanoparticles as photocatalyst under ultraviolet irradiation at 254 nm. Evaluation of the kinetic of the photo-catalytic degradation of 3-nitrophenol indicated that the degradation of 3-nitrophenol with ZnO nanoparticles obeyed the pseudo-first order reaction rate model.
Keywords
ZnO nanoparticles; photocatalytic degradation; 3-nitrophenol; ultraviolet irradiation; kinetic;
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