Estudo dos mecanismos de fotodegradação de corantes sobre dióxido de titânio através de técnicas de espectroscopia Raman intensificadas / Study of photodegradation mechanisms of dyes on titanium dioxide through techniques of Raman spectroscopy intensified

AUTOR(ES)

Carlos Eduardo Bonancêa

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

The use of spectroscopic techniques for the study of environmental questions is a research area has been experiencing important developments in recent years. These techniques embrace intensified spectroscopic methods, which offer great sensibility and selectivity for the detection of chemical species in low concentrations. In this work, we propose the introduction of a new methodology to be applied to the study of photodegradation of environmentally relevant molecules. We employed surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy to the analysis of photodegradation of azo-dyes mediated by titanium dioxide. First, we performed a comparative study concerning the different methods for the preparation of SERS-active substrate, onto which we would carry out simultaneously the photodegradation of dyes and the spectroscopic study of the process. The difficulty in the preparation of such substrates resides in the fact that it is necessary to produce a surface which is all together photocatalytic (by the presence of the semiconducting TiO2) and SERS-active (by the presence of nanostructured silver). In this context, three different preparation methods were investigated, with the purpose of achieving good SERS activity and reproducibility. The optimized SERS-active substrate was employed to study the photodegradation of two azo-dyes: Congo red and Janus green. Considering that the photocatalitic degradation process might involve either the oxidation or the reduction of molecules, the spectroelectrochemical study of both dyes was also performed, in order to in order to search for important correlations that would help to clarify the transformations involved in the initial steps of the photochemical decomposition of these substances. The obtained results revealed that the first steps of the degradation processes of both dyes followed different routes: whereas for Congo red there are evidences of an oxidation process, for Janus green the evidences point to a reduction mechanism. The combination of the data relative to the photochemical behavior of the dyes and their electrochemical study - using enhanced spectroscopic techniques for identification and characterization of products - has proven to be very promising, in the sense of offering relevant information with respect to the complex mechanisms that are involved in photodegradation processes.

ASSUNTO(S)

espectroscopia raman sers azo-corantes azo-dyes molecules photodegradation fotodegração de moléculas raman spectroscopy titanium dioxide sers dióxido de titânio

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