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UV-Assisted Fabrication of Reduced Graphene Oxide Doped SiO2@TiO2 Nanocomposites as Efficient Photocatalyst for Photodegradation of Rhodamine B

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The core-shell nanostructure materials have gained great interests because of its excellent photocatalytic properties and promising applications in several fields. In this work, we prepared the core-shell SiO2@TiO2 nanocomposites by the versatile kinetics-controlled coating method. The graphene oxide (GO) was further reduced over SiO2@TiO2 using UV-assisted photocatalytic reduction method. The physicochemical properties of the as-prepared SiO2@TiO2/RGO nanocomposites were characterized by SEM, XRD, BET, EDS, and FTIR. Results showed that, TiO2 was mainly composed of anatase phase with high crystallinity. Their photocatalytic activities were examined by the degradation of Rhodamine B (RhB) under UV light irradiation. The presence of RGO obviously improved the adsorption ability and photodegradation performance of the composites to RhB. The degradation kinetics of RhB can be described by the pseudo-first-order model. The optimum mass ratio of SiO2@TiO2 to RGO in the composite was 1/0.05 and the rate constant was about 4 times greater than that of the SiO2@TiO2.

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  1. College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing 163318, Heilongjiang, China

    Xueqin Wang, Junlei Wang, Ningfang Zhu, Fang Wang, Kai Cheng, Qihui Chen & Hua Song

  2. High Pressure Workshop of Plastic Plant, PetroChina Daqing Petrochemical Company, Daqing 163000, Heilongjiang, China

    Zhaoliang Ding

  3. Panzhihua Iron and Steel Research Institute, Panzhihu 617000, Sichuan, China

    Ningfang Zhu

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Wang, X., Wang, J., Ding, Z. et al. UV-Assisted Fabrication of Reduced Graphene Oxide Doped SiO2@TiO2 Nanocomposites as Efficient Photocatalyst for Photodegradation of Rhodamine B. Russ J Appl Chem 91, 764–769 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1070427218050063

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