Efficient Solar Energy Conversion Using CaCu(3)Ti(4)O(12) Photoanode for Photocatalysis and Photoelectrocatalysis

A highly efficient third generation catalyst, CaCu(3)Ti(4)O(12) (CCTO) shows excellent photoelectrochemical (PEC) and photocatalytic ability. As only 4% part of the solar spectrum covers UV light, thus it is highly desirable to develop visible light active photocatalyst materials like CCTO for effec...

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Autores principales: Kushwaha, H. S., Madhar, Niyaz A, Ilahi, B., Thomas, P., Halder, Aditi, Vaish, Rahul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4698584/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26725655
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep18557
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Sumario:A highly efficient third generation catalyst, CaCu(3)Ti(4)O(12) (CCTO) shows excellent photoelectrochemical (PEC) and photocatalytic ability. As only 4% part of the solar spectrum covers UV light, thus it is highly desirable to develop visible light active photocatalyst materials like CCTO for effective solar energy conversion. A direct band transition with a narrow band gap (1.5 eV) was observed. Under light irradiation, high photocurrent density was found to be 0.96 mA/cm(2), indicating the visible light induced photocatalytic ability of CCTO. Visible light mediated photocatalytic and photoelectrocatalytic degradation efficiency of CaCu(3)Ti(4)O(12) pellets (CCTO) was investigated for three classes of pharmaceutical waste: erythrosin (dye), ciprofloxacin (antibiotic) and estriol (steroid). It is found that the degradation process follows first order kinetic reaction in electrocatalysis, photocatalysis and photoelectrocatalysis and high kinetic rate constant was observed in photoelectrocatalysis. This was quite high in comparison to previously reported methods.

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