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A cellulose acetate based nanocomposite for photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue dye under solar light

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In this work, cellulose acetate–tin (IV) phosphate nanocomposite (CA/TPNC) ion exchanger has been explored for its photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue dye from aqueous solution. The CA/TPNC was characterized using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The ion exchange capacity of nanocomposite ion exchanger was observed to be high (1.48 meq g−1) for Na+ ion as compared to their inorganic counterpart (0.56 meq g−1). The CA/TPNC material was the photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue dye onto CA/TPNC was investigated for 140 min of solar irradiation at 662-nm wavelength. The 80 % the dye was removed onto CA/TPNC after 60 min of irradiation. The rate of photodegradation of MB dye onto CA/TPNC followed the pseudo-first-order kinetic model.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, 247667, India

    Vinod Kumar Gupta

  2. Department of Applied Chemistry, University of Johansburg, Johansburg, South Africa

    Vinod Kumar Gupta

  3. Chemistry Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

    Vinod Kumar Gupta & Twafik A. Saleh

  4. Department of Chemistry, Shoolini University, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, 173212, India

    Deepak Pathania, Bhim Singh Rathore & Gaurav Sharma

  5. Department of Chemistry, Government P.G. College, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, 173212, India

    Bhim Singh Rathore

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Gupta, V.K., Saleh, T.A., Pathania, D. et al. A cellulose acetate based nanocomposite for photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue dye under solar light. Ionics 21, 1787–1793 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-014-1323-9

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