Rationally construction of 2D & 3D material on h-BN @ SnO2/TiO2 micro-sphere enables for photocatalytic debasement of textile cloth dyes in waste water treatment

A Vasantham; K Thanigaimani; R Sudhakaran; S Mohan; Natarajan Arumugam; Abdulrahman I Almansour; Karthikeyan Perumal

doi:10.1016/j.envres.2024.118728

Rationally construction of 2D & 3D material on h-BN @ SnO₂/TiO₂ micro-sphere enables for photocatalytic debasement of textile cloth dyes in waste water treatment

Environ Res. 2024 Mar 14;251(Pt 2):118728. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.118728. Online ahead of print.

Authors

A Vasantham¹, K Thanigaimani², R Sudhakaran¹, S Mohan³, Natarajan Arumugam⁴, Abdulrahman I Almansour⁴, Karthikeyan Perumal⁵

Affiliations

¹ PG and Research Department of Chemistry, Government Arts College (Affiliated to Bharathidasan University), Tiruchirappalli - 620022, Tamilnadu, India.
² PG and Research Department of Chemistry, Government Arts College (Affiliated to Bharathidasan University), Tiruchirappalli - 620022, Tamilnadu, India. Electronic address: thanigaimani81@gmail.com.
³ PG and Research Department of Chemistry, Vivekananda College of Arts and Sciences for Women (Autonomous), Elayampalaym, Tiruchengode, 637205, Namakkal-DT, Tamilnadu, India. Electronic address: mohans@vicas.org.
⁴ Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
⁵ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, the Ohio State University, 151 W. Woodruff Ave, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA.

PMID: 38492840
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.118728

Abstract

Affordable and swiftly available h-BN@SnO₂/TiO₂ photocatalysts are being developed through an easy hydrothermally approach was used urea as boric acid precursors. With their constructed photo catalysts, the effect of h-BN@SnO₂/TiO₂ has been investigated under the assessment of Adsorption agents utilizing X-ray diffraction pattern (XRD), Scanning electron microscopy, Energy dispersive spectroscopic analysis (SEM/EDS), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM), and Burner Emit Teller (BET) isotherm testing methods, which also indicated that SnO₂/TiO₂ and h-BN have been tightly bound together. Because turquoise blue (TB) and Methyl orange (MO) fabric dyes can be found in the industrial wastewater being processed, the photo catalytic degradation process happens to be applied. According to the advantageous linkages of h-BN@SnO₂/TiO₂ photocatalysts, fantastic efficacy in breakdown towards hazardous compounds has been found. For the decomposition of Turquoise blue (TB) and Methyl orange (MO), the h-BN@SnO₂/TiO₂ catalysts proved the best performance stability (0.0386 min^-1 and 1.524min^-1) but were significantly 22 times quicker. Optical catalysis has additionally demonstrated extraordinary resilience and durability throughout five reprocessed efforts. On top of that, an approach enabling photocatalytic breakdown of harmful substances upon h-BN@SnO₂/TiO₂ has been presented.

Keywords: Textile cloth dyes; Waste water treatment; h-BN@SnO(2)/TiO(2,) sphere like layer.