Browsing by Author "Ahmed, I"

Filter results by typing the first few letters
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Novel Green Approach for Fabrication of Ag2CrO4/TiO2/Au/r-GO Hybrid Biofilm for Visible Light-Driven Photocatalytic Performance
    (American Chemical Society, 2020) Biswas, R; Mete, S; Mandal, M; Banerjee, B; Singh, H; Ahmed, I; Haldar, K.K.
    Development of cutting edge materials using a benevolent ecologically cordial methodology is an ideal approach for heterogeneous visible light photocatalysis. A new biogenic photocatalyst was developed by coupling titanium dioxide (TiO2) decorated elongated rhombic shape silver chromate (Ag2CrO4) with gold (Au) and reduced graphene oxide (r-GO) for dye degradation applications under visible light. An ecologically positive methodology was utilized to develop the quaternary Ag2CrO4/TiO2/Au/r-GO nanostructures biofilm with gold and reduced graphene oxide (r-GO) via impregnation and in situ reduction technique in the presence of acacia gum. The structural properties and morphology of the Ag2CrO4/TiO2/Au/r-GO nanostructures were described by several spectroscopic and microscopic methods such as XRD, XPS, ATR-FTIR, Raman spectroscopy, FE-SEM, etc. Alteration with Au and r-GO decreased the band vitality and essentially improved the visible light ingestion of the quaternary Ag2CrO4/TiO2/Au/r-GO composite biofilm photocatalyst and slowed down the recombination process of the photogenerated electrons and holes. To demonstrate how such a unique heterostructured biofilm might produce more outstanding photocatalytic activity, we examined a comparison of the photocatalytic performances of Ag2CrO4/TiO2/Au/r-GO hybrid biofilm with different inner structures. The photocatalytic debasement of MB reached almost 97% within 52 min, and it has been found that the Ag2CrO4/TiO2/Au/r-GO biofilm increased the degradation rate of MB by a factor of 10.8, 6.5, and 3.1 in comparison with exposed Ag2CrO4, Ag2CrO4/TiO2, and Ag2CrO4/TiO2/Au biofilms, individually. Further, the high electron movement capacity of Ag2CrO4/TiO2/Au/r-GO biofilm was explored by photoelectrochemical investigation and TCSPC to comprehend the mechanistic insight of the superior activity of this composite nanostructures under visible light illumination. Hence, the present investigation describes a facile, eco-friendly, and biomimetic approach for the fabrication of Ag2CrO4/TiO2/Au/r-GO biofilm based photocatalyst using acacia gum. Copyright � 2020 American Chemical Society.