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Department of Chemistry, Payame Noor University, 19395-3697 Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Two new organic hybrids of phosphomolybdic acid (PMA) were prepared by means of hexamine (HMT) and HMT-Ni2+ complex. The effects of hybridization of HMT and Ni2+ were investigated on the photocatalytic activity of PMA. Characterization of hybrids were carried out by elemental analyses, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, powder X-ray diffraction, thermogravimetric analysis and differential scanning calorimetry. The band gaps of PMA, phosphomolybdate-hexamine (PMA-HMT) and phosphomolybdate-hexamine-nickel (PMA-HMT-Ni) were determined from the diffuse reflectance spectra using the Tauc plots. Dye adsorption and photocatalytic properties of PMA-HMT and PMA-HMT-Ni hybrids were examined by studying the decolorization of model dyes methylene blue (MB), rhodamine B (RhB) and mixtures of MB and methyl orange (MO) solutions. The results show that the band gap of PMA-HMT-Ni is narrower and hence, its photocatalytic activity is higher for the degradation of dyes under sunlight irradiation. Mechanism of photodegradation was studied by adding scavengers. Removal is via combination of adsorption and then photocatalytic degradation through oxidation by radicals.
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