Design and development of symmetric aromatic bischalcogenide-based photocatalysts for water treatment application: a concise study of diphenyl diselenide polypyrrole nanocatalysis.

ABSTRACT: Dopant engineering can be a very selective approach in designing hybrid materials. Incorporating the required functionality in a dopant effectively modulates its properties towards aimed applications. Consequently, this work through a comparative study envisaged the incorporation of chalcogenides (S, Se, and Te) in a biphenyl motif based on the analysis of major photocatalytic descriptors. Bischalcogenides as tuned dopants have been impressive in enhancing the surface area, increasing crystallinity and facilitating band gap shifts towards better light harvesting. In addition, the chalcogen effect was observed to induce preferential ion migration, leading to effective charge separation and attenuated recombination rates. Photocatalytic descriptors evaluated from electrochemical impedance sp

SUBMITTER: Jan T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11331315 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature