Facile Preparation of a Bispherical Silver-Carbon Photocatalyst and Its Enhanced Degradation Efficiency of Methylene Blue, Rhodamine B, and Methyl Orange under UV Light.

ABSTRACT: The combination of organic and inorganic materials is attracting attention as a photocatalyst that promotes the decomposition of organic dyes. A facile thermal procedure has been proposed to produce spherical silver nanoparticles (AgNPs), carbon nanospheres (CNSs), and a bispherical AgNP-CNS nanocomposite. The AgNPs and CNSs were each synthesized from silver acetate and glucose via single- and two-step annealing processes under sealed conditions, respectively. The AgNP-CNS nanocomposite was synthesized by the thermolysis of a mixture of silver acetate and a mesophase, where the mesophase was formed by annealing glucose in a sealed vessel at 190 °C. The physicochemical features of the as-prepared nanoparticles and composite were evaluated using several analytical techniques, revealing (i) i

SUBMITTER: Islam MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9698814 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature