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Aizat Azhari Mohd Yatim1, Nurul Athirah Ismail1, Mohd Rashid Yusof Hamid1
1Nanotechnology & Catalysis Research Centre (NANOCAT), Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS), University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Abstract:
The vanadium (V) and nitrogen (N) dopants on TiO₂ demonstrated superior photocatalytic performance for the degradation of methylene blue (MB) dye under visible light. The vanadium, V, N-co-doped TiO₂ was synthesized by a modified sol-gel method. It revealed that V and N codoping had a significant effect on the band gap (E) of TiO₂, where the pristine TiO₂ possessed a wide band gap (3.18 eV) compared to V-doped TiO₂ (2.89 eV) and N-doped TiO₂ (2.87 eV) while the V, N-co-doped TiO₂ depicted the narrowest band gap (2.65 eV). The greatly increased specific surface area for the V, N-co-doped TiO₂ (103.87 m²/g) as compared to P25 TiO₂ (51.68 m²/g) also contributed to the major improvement in the MB dye degradation efficiency (0.055 min-1). The V, N-co-doped TiO₂ exhibit rapid photocatalytic activity for the degradation of MB with almost 99% of degradation in 120 minutes.
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