Preparation and visible light catalytic performance of N-doped C coated NaTaO3 composites
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Abstract
The N-doped C coated NaTaO3 composite was prepared through sol-gel method by using tantalic chloride (TaCl5) and sodium acetate as raw materials, melamine as N sources, cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB) and polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) as surfactant. The synthesized sample was characterized in detail by XRD, TEM, XPS and UV-Vis DRS. The dye rhodamine B (RhB) was used as a model contaminant to evaluate the adsorption and photocatalytic activity of N-doped carbon coated NaTaO3. The results indicate that CTAB and PVP form ultra-thin carbon film around NaTaO3, which not only limits the growth of NaTaO3 particles, but also improves the adsorbability to target pollutants. The composites with tripolynitrile amines to TaCl5 molar ratio n=1.5 have the best visible light catalytic performance and the removal ratio of RhB achieves 96.46% under dark adsorption for 80 min and irradiation for 8 h. The photodegradation of RhB is in accordance with the pseudo first order reduction kinetics model.
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