Biswas, RMete, SMandal, MBanerjee, BSingh, HAhmed, IHaldar, K.K.2020-07-162024-08-132020-07-162024-08-1320201932744710.1021/acs.jpcc.9b10866http://10.2.3.109/handle/32116/2677Development 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.enArticlehttps://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b10866