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Polymer/inorganic hybrid layer enhancing photoactivity of TiO2NWs/g-C3N4 for the removal of dyes and quantum dots solar cells

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Environmental chemistry

Abstract

A polymer solution containing 0.5 wt.% polydiallyl dimethyl ammonium chloride was used to modify graphitic carbon nitride by the sol-carbonization method (PDDA (0.5) @ g-C3N4). Titanium dioxide nanoparticles were synthesized by microwave irradiation followed by hydrothermal treatment to obtain titanium nanowires (TiNWs). The TiO2NWs/ (PDDA (0.5) @g-C3N4) nanocomposite was prepared with different wt. % of TiO2NWs to (PDDA (0.5) @g-C3N4), 50:50, and 30:70 by the wet impregnation method. The prepared nanocomposites were applied in twin applications: photo-catalysis and quantum dot solar cells. Basic blue (Bb) and Methyl Orange (MO) were used as pollutants, and the degradation efficiencies were 96, 94, 90.8, 63.7, and 30.7% for TiO2NWs/ (PDDA (0.5) @g-C3N4) (50:50), TiO2NWs/ (PDDA (0.5) @g-C3N4) (30:70), TiO2NWs, g-C3N4, and (PDDA (0.5) @ g-C3N4), respectively, compared with the control experiment (without catalyst) at 14.8%. A perceived improvement in photovoltaic performance of TiO2NWs/ (PDDA (0.5) @g-C3N4) (50:50) was observed. A conversion efficiency of 2.8% with a VoC of 504 mV, JSC of 9.92 mA cm-2, and a fill factor (FF) of 0.58 was achieved using 7 layers of CdS QD by the SILAR method.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2022.149156.6505

Keywords

Nanocomposite, conductive polymer, Cationic dye, Photo-degradation, (QDSSCs), (SILAR)

Authors

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Hossam E. M.

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Abdelmoneim

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Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.

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hossam.1210@gmail.com

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Magdy A.

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Wassel

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Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.

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sawsanhassan2003@hotmail.com

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Nasr

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Ahmed S.

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Elfeky

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Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.

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sawsanepri2014@gmail.com

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Samar H.

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Bendary

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Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute, 1-Ahmed El-Zomr St., P.O. Box 11727, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt

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samar.epri@yahoo.com

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Sawsan

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Mahmoud

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A.

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Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute, 1-Ahmed El-Zomr St., P.O. Box 11727, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt

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sawsanhassan@epri.sci.eg

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Nasr City

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65

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13

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37459

Issue Date

2022-12-01

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2022-07-13

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2022-12-01

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0449-2285

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2357-0245

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297

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Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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22 Jan 2023