<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>High aspect ratio, Zn doped copper oxide (Zn-CuO) nanofibers have been fabricated employing a newly designed electrospun coating unit using copper acetate, sodium hydroxide and polyethylene glycol in aqueous state. The prepared Zn doped copper oxide (Zn-CuO) nanofibers were sintered at 400 °C, 500 °C and 600 °C separately and characterized using X-ray diffraction XRD, Fourier transformation infrared spectroscopy FT-IR, scanning electron microscopy SEM, energy dispersive spectroscopy EDS. The average crystallite size was in the range of 28 nm to 30 nm. Optical properties of Zn-CuO nanofibers were analyzed using UV-DRS studies which showed a blue shift in the absorption band. An increase in band gap with the increase in postannealing temperature was observed due to the blue shift in absorption edge of CuO causing enhanced photodegradation. The catalytic properties of the CuO nanofibers were tested using methylene blue in aqueous medium. The influences of parameters responsible for high photodegradation were optimized and the rate of the photodegradation process was calculated using photodegradation kinetics. The reusability test was conducted to find the stability of the fabricated Zn-CuO nanofibers.</p></abstract>

High aspect ratio, Zn doped copper oxide (Zn-CuO) nanofibers have been fabricated employing a newly designed electrospun coating unit using copper acetate, sodium hydroxide and polyethylene glycol in aqueous state. The prepared Zn doped copper oxide (Zn-CuO) nanofibers were sintered at 400 °C, 500 °C and 600 °C separately and characterized using X-ray diffraction XRD, Fourier transformation infrared spectroscopy FT-IR, scanning electron microscopy SEM, energy dispersive spectroscopy EDS. The average crystallite size was in the range of 28 nm to 30 nm. Optical properties of Zn-CuO nanofibers were analyzed using UV-DRS studies which showed a blue shift in the absorption band. An increase in band gap with the increase in postannealing temperature was observed due to the blue shift in absorption edge of CuO causing enhanced photodegradation. The catalytic properties of the CuO nanofibers were tested using methylene blue in aqueous medium. The influences of parameters responsible for high photodegradation were optimized and the rate of the photodegradation process was calculated using photodegradation kinetics. The reusability test was conducted to find the stability of the fabricated Zn-CuO nanofibers.

Fabrication and characterization of Zn doped CuO nanofiber using newly designed nanofiber generator for the photodegradation of methylene blue from textile effluent

Department of Physics, Kumaraguru College of Technology

Department of Physics, Coimbatore Institute of Technology

Department of Chemistry, Coimbatore Institute of Technology

Materials Science-Poland

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High aspect ratio, Zn doped copper oxide (Zn-CuO) nanofibers have been fabricated employing a newly designed electrospun coating unit using copper acetate,...

Fabrication and characterization of Zn doped CuO nanofiber using newly designed nanofiber generator for the photodegradation of methylene blue from textile effluent

Published Online: Nov 02, 2018

Page range: 520 - 529

Received: Mar 13, 2018

Accepted: Apr 06, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/msp-2018-0056

Keywords
copper oxide, dopant, nanofiber, electrospinning, band gap, photocatalyst

© 2018 Ramasamy Gopalsamy Sethuraman et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Fabrication and characterization of Zn doped CuO nanofiber using newly designed nanofiber generator for the photodegradation of methylene blue from textile effluent

Published Online: Nov 02, 2018

Page range: 520 - 529

Received: Mar 13, 2018

Accepted: Apr 06, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/msp-2018-0056

Keywordscopper oxide, dopant, nanofiber, electrospinning, band gap, photocatalyst

© 2018 Ramasamy Gopalsamy Sethuraman et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
copper oxide, dopant, nanofiber, electrospinning, band gap, photocatalyst