Synthesis and characterization of ZnS-montmorillonite nanocomposites and their application for degrading eosin B

Preparation and characterization of ZnS nanoparticles deposited on montmorillonite

“…(6)- (8). The role of HCO À 3 during the photocatalysis in the presence of ZnS-MMT is still unclear.…”

“…The preparation of ZnS nanoparticles often involves using an organic/surfactant stabilizer. Cetyltrimethylammonium (CTA) [7][8][9], sodium bis(2-ethylhexyl) sulfosuccinate [10,11], L-cysteine, mercaptoethanol [12] and other stabilizers [13][14][15][16][17], or different polymer assistants [18][19][20] were used to prevent the particles agglomeration keeping their size in the nano-range. CO 2 is a greenhouse gas representing the largest contribution of human activities.…”

Kinetics of oxygen adsorption on ZnS nanoparticles synthesized by precipitation process

“…ZnS nanoparticles have many important applications, such as in-vivo and in-vitro imaging of target tissues [1][2][3]. Their fluorescence properties have been vastly studied [1][2][3][4][5][6][7].…”

“…Their fluorescence properties have been vastly studied [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. Based on the specific application, appropriate morphology and particle sizes have been obtained by tuning precursor concentration, stabilizing surfactant, pH and temperature of the chemical processes generally used for production of the ZnS particles [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16].…”

Preparation of metal sulfide mixtures in montmorillonite by solid–solid reactions

“…A large number of surface defects, instability during prolonged light irradiation (Jia et al, 2011), as well as low quantum yield (Rajeshwar et al, 2001) have been proposed as drawbacks, which limit the optical applications. To overcome the limitation of the semiconductors, synthetic effort has been devoted to control the structure and particle size using a variety of methods such as mixing of semiconductors (Ge et al, 2011;Viswanath et al, 2014) and doping foreign metal ion (Yang et al, 2012;Labiadh et al, 2013), surface capping as well as immobilization on effective media or supports including polymer, layered inorganic solids and so forth (Kotov et al, 1993;Dékány et al, 1995Dékány et al, , 1999aSzabó et al, 2003;Maity et al, 2006;Miao et al, 2006;Nascimento et al, 2012;Praus et al, 2013;Soltani et al, 2013;Sharma and Gosavi, 2014). Besides the preparation of single metal sulfide, metal sulfide mixtures have been studied because the combination of characteristic of each metal sulfide provided the modified properties due to newly created electronic structure and/or morphology (Hsu et al, 2005;Zheng et al, 2009;Raubach et al, 2012).…”