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Paper Title

Copper doping induced band structure and morphology transformation in CaTiO3 for textile dye photodegradation applications

Keywords

  • Cu-doped CaTiO3
  • photocatalysis
  • visible light degradation
  • bandgap reduction
  • density functional theory
  • dye degradation
  • cationic dyes
  • anionic dyes
  • solvothermal synthesis
  • charge carrier recombination

Article Type

Research Article

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Issue

Volume : 1004 | Page No : 175779

Published On

November, 2024

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Abstract

Semiconductor metal oxides with a wide bandgap like CaTiO3 can be exploited into an efficient visible light photocatalyst via cation doping. The type of dopant and the site of doping is known to greatly influence the photocatalytic activity of a material. Based on the intricacies of the density functional theory electronic structure study, we delve into the optimization of one-pot solvothermal synthesis to obtain Cu doped CaTiO3 nanocuboids. Doping of copper not only resulted in change in the electronic structure of the material but also led to change in the morphology. The uneven nanostep architecture resulted in increase in the surface area of the catalyst, which led to more active sites for the adsorption of the dyes and subsequent degradation. The reduced band gap and decreased recombination of charge carriers made the copper doped calcium titanate an efficient photocatalyst for degradation of both cationic (99.7% degradation of MV dye in 120 minutes) and anionic (99.8% degradation of RB in 45 minutes) dyes.

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