Effect of experimental parameters on photocatalytic degradation efficiency of TiO2 nanoparticles synthesized by electrochemical method towards Rhodamine B dye solution under natural sunlight

Floating TiO2-Cork Nano-Photocatalysts for Water Purification Using Sunlight

“…Additionally, it is well known that for metal oxide semiconductors, a decrease in the particle size at the nanoscale leads to an enhancement of their photocatalytic performance due to their higher surface-to-volume ratio [28,36,37]. The excellent photocatalytic properties of these nano-sized materials have also been exhibited under natural sunlight [38,39].…”

Modeling of Solar Photocatalytic Degradation of Rhodamine B Dye by TiO2 Nanoparticles Using an Artificial Neural Network

“…The aforementioned MISO ANN model was generated by utilizing experimental data [11] for the photocatalytic degradation of RhB in different experimental conditions under direct sunlight irradiation. During the experiments, the effects of the sunlight irradiation time, the pH of the initial dye solution, the catalyst dose, and the initial dye concentration on the RhB degradation were systematically studied.…”

“…Thus, each input variable was scaled within the range {0,1}. The MISO ANN model for predicting the percentage degradation was developed using the related experimental data [11] and is reported in Tab. 2.…”

“…Among these, TiO 2 attracts researchers because of its high chemical stability, large-scale availability, low cost, nontoxicity, and high photocatalytic efficiency [15]. Due to the wide bandgap energy of ~3.2 eV for anatase TiO 2 , these metal oxides can only be activated by UV-A light irradiation [11].…”

Immobilization of a TiO2–PEDOT:PSS hybrid heterojunction photocatalyst for degradation of organic effluents

“… 46 According to previous reports, the positions of the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) level and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) level of PEDOT:PSS are located at 0.28 eV and −1.32 eV, respectively, 47 while the estimated positions of the valence band (VB) and conduction band (CB) of TiO 2 are approximately 2.91 eV and −0.31 eV, respectively. 48 The corresponding band alignments of the two components are illustrated in Fig. 7 .…”