Microwave-Assisted fabrication of recyclable CdS/Fe3O4/rGO photocatalysts to improve the photocatalytic performance under visible light

Xinlin Liu, Yingying Qin, Mingjun Zhou, Yongsheng Yan

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Abstract

A unique CdS/Fe3O4/rGO composite photocatalyst is successfully synthesized by the microwave method. It displays promising photocatalytic activity towards the photo-degrading of tetracycline (TC) in aqueous solution, the degradation rate of TC is 69% with adding 0.1g CdS/Fe3O4/rGO photocatalyst into 20mg/L tetracycline for 2h under visible light irradiation. Furthermore, the mechanism was systematically investigated by active species trapping experiment. It can be known that e-was the major active species in the photodegradation process and the possible process of charge transfer for CdS/Fe3O4/rGO was proposed based on the experimental results. The as-prepared samples were carefully evaluated by XRD, TEM, XPS, VSM, PL spectra, Raman spectrometer.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1650129
JournalNano
Volume11
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Nov 2016
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • CdS
  • composite photocatalyst
  • FeO
  • rGO
  • tetracyline

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