Fatimah, Is and Yahya, Amri and Purwiandono, Gani and Sagadevan, Suresh (2023) WO3 dispersed on a titanium porous clay heterostructure as a highly efficient visible light-active photocatalyst. Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 158 (1). ISSN 1387-7003, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inoche.2023.111548.
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Nanocomposites of WO3-dispersed titanium-porous clay heterostructures (W/Ti-PCH) from montmorillonite raw clay were synthesized and reported for the first time in this paper. The nanocomposite was prepared by impregnating tungstophosphoric acid into the titanium-porous clay heterostructure (Ti-PCH). The physicochemical features of the nanocomposite were characterized by using X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDS), high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), UV-visible diffuse reflectance UV-visible spectroscopy (UV-DRS), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and gas sorption analyses. Identification using XRD and XPS revealed that the dispersion of WO3 anchored on the Ti-PCH surface led to an increase in the band gap energy of the material from 3.1 eV in Ti-PCH to 3.22 eV in W/Ti-PCH. The improved characteristics support the excellent photocatalytic activity for RhB degradation, as 99.99 % removal was achieved after 15 min of treatment.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Photocatalytic degradation; Porous clay heterostructure; WO3; TiO2 |
| Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) Q Science > QD Chemistry |
| Divisions: | Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation) Office > Nanotechnology & Catalysis Research Centre |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Sep 2025 03:30 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Sep 2025 03:30 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/50619 |
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