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Conversion of Non-Optical Material to Photo-Active Nanocomposites through Non-Conventional Techniques for Water Purification by Solar Energy

Development of optical materials has attracted strong attention from scientists across the world to obtain low band gap energy and become active in field of solar energy. This challenge, which cannot be accomplished by the usual techniques, has overcome through the current study using non-convention...

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Autores principales: Saber, Osama, Alshoaibi, Adil, Al-Yaari, Mohammed, Osama, Mostafa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7583009/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33007832
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules25194484
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author Saber, Osama
Alshoaibi, Adil
Al-Yaari, Mohammed
Osama, Mostafa
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Al-Yaari, Mohammed
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description Development of optical materials has attracted strong attention from scientists across the world to obtain low band gap energy and become active in field of solar energy. This challenge, which cannot be accomplished by the usual techniques, has overcome through the current study using non-conventional techniques. This study has used explosive reactions to convert non-optical alumina to series of new optical nanocomposites with very low band gap energy for the first time. In this trend, alumina nanoparticles were prepared and modified by explosive reactions using ammonium nitrate as a solid fuel. By using methanol or ethanol as a source of carbon species, three nanocomposites were produced indicating a gradual reduction of the band gap energy of alumina from 4.34 eV to 1.60 eV. These nanocomposites were obtained by modifying alumina via two different carbon species; core-shell structure and carbon nanotubes. This modification led to sharp reduction for the band gap energy to become very sensitive in sunlight. Therefore, these nanocomposites caused fast decolorization and mineralization of green dyes after illuminating in sunlight for ten minutes. Finally, it can be concluded that reduction of the band gap energy introduces new optical materials for developing optical nano-devices and solar cells.
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spelling pubmed-75830092020-10-28 Conversion of Non-Optical Material to Photo-Active Nanocomposites through Non-Conventional Techniques for Water Purification by Solar Energy Saber, Osama Alshoaibi, Adil Al-Yaari, Mohammed Osama, Mostafa Molecules Article Development of optical materials has attracted strong attention from scientists across the world to obtain low band gap energy and become active in field of solar energy. This challenge, which cannot be accomplished by the usual techniques, has overcome through the current study using non-conventional techniques. This study has used explosive reactions to convert non-optical alumina to series of new optical nanocomposites with very low band gap energy for the first time. In this trend, alumina nanoparticles were prepared and modified by explosive reactions using ammonium nitrate as a solid fuel. By using methanol or ethanol as a source of carbon species, three nanocomposites were produced indicating a gradual reduction of the band gap energy of alumina from 4.34 eV to 1.60 eV. These nanocomposites were obtained by modifying alumina via two different carbon species; core-shell structure and carbon nanotubes. This modification led to sharp reduction for the band gap energy to become very sensitive in sunlight. Therefore, these nanocomposites caused fast decolorization and mineralization of green dyes after illuminating in sunlight for ten minutes. Finally, it can be concluded that reduction of the band gap energy introduces new optical materials for developing optical nano-devices and solar cells. MDPI 2020-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7583009/ /pubmed/33007832 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules25194484 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title Conversion of Non-Optical Material to Photo-Active Nanocomposites through Non-Conventional Techniques for Water Purification by Solar Energy
title_full Conversion of Non-Optical Material to Photo-Active Nanocomposites through Non-Conventional Techniques for Water Purification by Solar Energy
title_fullStr Conversion of Non-Optical Material to Photo-Active Nanocomposites through Non-Conventional Techniques for Water Purification by Solar Energy
title_full_unstemmed Conversion of Non-Optical Material to Photo-Active Nanocomposites through Non-Conventional Techniques for Water Purification by Solar Energy
title_short Conversion of Non-Optical Material to Photo-Active Nanocomposites through Non-Conventional Techniques for Water Purification by Solar Energy
title_sort conversion of non-optical material to photo-active nanocomposites through non-conventional techniques for water purification by solar energy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7583009/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33007832
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules25194484
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