Liquid metal assisted sonocatalytic degradation of organic azo dyes to solid carbon particles

Chem Commun (Camb). 2021 Sep 14;57(73):9296-9299. doi: 10.1039/d1cc03235f.

Abstract

Room temperature liquid metals are an emerging class of materials for a variety of heterogeneous catalytic reactions. In this work we explore the use of Ga based liquid metals as a sonochemical catalyst for the degradation of organic azo dyes such as methyl orange, congo red and eriochrome black T. Rapid degradation to non toxic solid carbon particles was achieved over a large dye concentration range to produce differently sized particles via both bath and probe sonication which could be repeated multiple times with the same catalyst.