Karuppannan Rokesh, Kulandaivel Jeganathan, Kandasamy Jothivenkatachalam, “Zinc oxide-palladium material an efficient solar-light driven photocatalyst for degradation of congo red”, Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, 2016, Volume 7, Issue 4,Pages <nobr>740

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Zinc oxide-palladium material an efficient solar-light driven photocatalyst for degradation of congo red

Karuppannan Rokesh^a, Kulandaivel Jeganathan^b, Kandasamy Jothivenkatachalam^a

^a Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, School of Physics, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli–620024, Tamil Nadu, India
^b Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, School of Physics, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli–620024, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract: Zinc oxide palladium nanocomposite material (ZnO-Pd)$_{NCM}$ was prepared and then characterized by UV-Vis spectroscopy, photoluminescence spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction analysis, energy dispersive X-ray analysis and field emission-scanning electron microscopy. The photocatalytic performance of (ZnO-Pd)$_{NCM}$ was investigated by degradation of Congo red under solar light irradiation. Zinc oxide modified with palladium metal could greatly enhance its photocatalytic activity and effectively degraded by Congo red dye.

Keywords: zinc oxide, palladium, nanocomposite, photocatalyst, congo red, degradation.

PACS: 81.07.-b

Received: 11.02.2016
Revised: 23.04.2016

Language: English

DOI: 10.17586/2220-8054-2016-7-4-740-746