N-doped ZnO/graphene oxide: a photostable photocatalyst for improved mineralization and photodegradation of organic dye under visible light

Improvement of Ultrasound‐Assisted Removal of Rifampin in the Presence of N: ZnO/GO Nanocomposite as Sonocatalyst

“…36–1451 which affirmed the formation of wurtzite phase of ZnO . There is a relationship between urea concentration and crystal structure of N:ZnO is appreciated . These peaks represent that the intensities of diffraction peaks declined by increasing urea concentrations.…”

Visible light driven photocatalytic degradation of aqueous acetamiprid over nitrogen and graphene oxide doped ZnO composites

“…A scrutiny of the literature allowed to note that band gap energy was generally evaluated to be around 3.21 eV for pristine ZnO, while nitrogen doped ZnO exhibited lower values in the vicinity of 3.08 to 2.95 eV. [16][17][18][19] As for Fig. 4 FTIR spectra of the synthesised materials.…”

“…In this connection, the band gap energy was reported to be close to 2.83-2.90 for the N-GO doped ZnO. 19 So far, various methods of ZnO nanoparticles doping with nitrogen and graphene oxide have been explored, such as thermal nitridation, 25 in situ synthesis, 26 chemical vapor deposition (CVD) 27 and so forth. However, these methods exhibited disadvantages such as severe synthesis conditions and random distribution of the doping species.…”

“…Indeed, while the band gap energy was generally evaluated to be around 3.21 eV for pristine ZnO, nitrogen doped ZnO materials exhibited lower values within the range [3.08-2.95 eV]. [16][17][18][19] The graphene oxide (GO) is also a promising material having an atomic thick nanosheet of covalently organised two-dimensional lattice of carbon atoms. 20 Moreover, the surface properties of GO can be adjusted through chemical modication, which favours its perfect solubility in solvents and provides efficient opportunities for the synthesis of GO based nanocomposites.…”

Mechanistic investigation of photocatalytic degradation of organic dyes by a novel zinc coordination polymer

“…Zinc-based semiconductor catalysts, including simple oxides and metal complexes, have been shown to effectively degrade organic substances such as dyes in wastewater. [27][28][29] Among those, ZnO is the most commonly used photocatalytic material [30][31][32][33] as it has a high uptake of sunlight with a high quantum…”