Nanocomposites for photodegradation of contaminants
AssigneeImam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University
InventorsMohamed Khairy Abdel Fattah Omran, Babiker Yagoub Elhadi Abdulkhair
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Abstract
A method of photodegrading an organic compound may include irradiating, in the presence of the organic compound, a nanocomposite including graphitic C3N4, MnO2, and MgAl2O4 in a mass relationship to each other in a range of from 5 to 15:2 to 7:75 to 95, at a temperature in a range of from 10° C. to 80° C. in a contaminated volume of water, thereby photodegrading the organic compound to partially decompose the organic compound and at least partially decontaminate the contaminated volume of water.
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A method of photodegrading an organic compound, the method comprising:
- irradiating, in the presence of the organic compound, a nanocomposite comprising graphitic C3N4, MnO2, and MgAl2O4 in a mass relationship to each other in a range of from 5 to 15:2 to 7:75 to 95, at a temperature in a range of from 10 to 80° C. in a contaminated volume of water, thereby photodegrading the organic compound to partially decompose the organic compound and at least partially decontaminate the contaminated volume of water,
- wherein the nanocomposite has a (220) spinel interplanar spacing in a range of from 0.258 to 0.338 nm, (400) spinel interplanar spacing in a range of from 0.165 to 0.245 nm, (002) MnO2 interplanar spacing in a range of from 0.106 to 0.186 nm, and (211) Al2O3 interplanar spacing in a range of from 0.093 to 0.173 nm, according to selected area diffraction.
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