Highly efficient photocatalytic activity of CuO quantum dot decorated rGO nanocomposites
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- 19 July 2016
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
- Vol. 49 (31) , 315107
Abstract
CuO quantum dots (QD) of size 4.5 nm decorated on a rGO sheet to form nanocomposites with different weight percentages via a simple soft chemical route was reported here. Tuning of CuO QD absorption towards the visible region from the UV region in the presence of rGO was also observed. The luminescence of rGO was found to be quenched in rGO–CuO nanocomposites due to charge transfer from the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital of the rGO layer to the conduction band of CuO. Systematic and concise studies of photocatalytic performance towards degradation of methylene blue (MB) dye by CuO QD along with rGO–CuO nanocomposites were presented in this work. A nanocomposite with an equal weight percentage of rGO and CuO degrades almost 99% of MB under irradiation of visible light for 50 min, showing maximum degradation efficiency.Keywords
Funding Information
- Anusandhan National Research Foundation (SB/FTP/PS-190/2013, SR/S2/RJN-98/2011)
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