用绿色合成的P@CQDs修饰的TiO纳米纤维用于高效光催化降解有机染料和药物。
TiO nanofibres decorated with green-synthesized P@CQDs for the efficient photocatalytic degradation of organic dyes and pharmaceutical drugs.
作者信息
Thakur Anupma, Kumar Praveen, Kaur Devinder, Devunuri Nagaraju, Sinha R K, Devi Pooja
机构信息
Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) Ghaziabad-201002 India.
CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation Sector-30 C Chandigarh-160030 India
出版信息
RSC Adv. 2020 Mar 2;10(15):8941-8948. doi: 10.1039/c9ra10804a. eCollection 2020 Feb 27.
Organic pollutants such as dyes and pharmaceutical drugs have become an environmental menace, particularly in water bodies owing to their unregulated discharge. It is thus required to develop an economically viable and environment-friendly approach for their degradation in water bodies. In this study, for the first time, we report green route-synthesized plasmonic nanostructures (P-CQDs (where M: Au and Ag)) decorated onto TiO nanofibers for the treatment of toxic dye- and pharmaceutical drug-based wastewater. P-CQDs are efficaciously synthesized using carbon quantum dots (CQDs) as the sole reducing and capping agent, wherein CQDs are derived a green synthesis approach from waste. The characteristic electron-donating property of CQDs played a key role in the reduction of Au to Au and Ag to Ag under visible light irradiation to obtain P-CQDs and P-CQDs, respectively. Thus, the obtained CQDs, P-CQDs, and P-CQDs are loaded onto TiO nanofibers to obtain a P-CQD/TiO nanocomposite (NC), and are further probed transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and UV-visible spectrophotometry. The degradation of organic pollutants and pharmaceutical drugs using methylene blue and erythromycin as model pollutants is mapped with UV-vis and NMR spectroscopy. The results demonstrate the complete MB dye degradation in 20 minutes with 1 mg mL of P-CQD/TiO NC, which otherwise is 30 minutes for P@CQD/TiO dose under visible light irradiation. Similarly, the pharmaceutical drug was found to degrade in 150 minutes with P-CQD/TiO photocatalysts. These findings reveal the enhanced photocatalytic performance of the green-synthesized Au decorated with TiO nanofibers and are attributed to the boosted SPR effect and aqueous-phase stability of Au nanostructures. This study opens a new domain of utilizing waste-derived and green-synthesized plasmonic nanostructures for the degradation of toxic/hazardous dyes and pharmaceutical pollutants in water.
染料和药品等有机污染物已成为一种环境威胁,尤其是由于它们的无节制排放而对水体造成威胁。因此,需要开发一种经济可行且环境友好的方法来降解水体中的这些污染物。在本研究中,我们首次报道了通过绿色路线合成的等离子体纳米结构(P-CQDs,其中M为Au和Ag)负载在TiO纳米纤维上,用于处理基于有毒染料和药品的废水。P-CQDs是使用碳量子点(CQDs)作为唯一的还原剂和封端剂有效合成的,其中CQDs是通过绿色合成方法从废物中获得的。CQDs的特征性供电子性质在可见光照射下将Au还原为Au以及将Ag还原为Ag以分别获得P-CQDs和P-CQDs的过程中起关键作用。因此,将获得的CQDs、P-CQDs和P-CQDs负载在TiO纳米纤维上以获得P-CQD/TiO纳米复合材料(NC),并通过透射电子显微镜、扫描电子显微镜和紫外可见分光光度法对其进行进一步探测。以亚甲基蓝和红霉素作为模型污染物,利用紫外可见光谱和核磁共振光谱对有机污染物和药品的降解情况进行了测绘。结果表明,在可见光照射下,1 mg/mL的P-CQD/TiO NC可在20分钟内使MB染料完全降解,而对于P@CQD/TiO剂量则需要30分钟。同样,发现P-CQD/TiO光催化剂可在150分钟内使药品降解。这些发现揭示了负载有TiO纳米纤维的绿色合成Au的光催化性能增强,这归因于Au纳米结构增强的表面等离子体共振(SPR)效应和水相稳定性。本研究开辟了一个利用废物衍生和绿色合成的等离子体纳米结构降解水中有毒/有害染料和药品污染物的新领域。