Influence of the Local Structure on the Photocatalytic Properties of Zinc Spinel Ferrite Nanoparticles

AUTOR(ES)

Biazati, Luciana B.; Lorenzini, Lucas; Ferreira, Sandra A. D.; Porto, Arilza O.; Castro, Eustáquio V. R. de; Fabris, José D.; Freitas, Marcos B. J. G. de; Lelis, Maria de Fátima F.

FONTE

Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2022

RESUMO

The correlation between iron distribution in octahedral or tetrahedral sites in synthetic magnetite and zinc spinel ferrites and their catalytic properties were investigated in this work. The zinc-doped nanomagnetites were prepared by co-precipitation method and annealed at 420 °C. X-ray diffraction, UV-Vis, X-ray absorption and 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopies were used to identify iron sites. The obtained results showed that ZnII replaces the relatively smaller FeIII cation in the tetrahedral sites, increasing the cubic lattice dimension, and this replacement remarkably enhances the catalytic effectiveness of the Zn-spinel ferrite towards the indigo carmine degradation compared to undoped magnetite. The indigo carmine degradation experiments were carried out using photo-Fenton method in which 50 mL of indigo carmine dye aqueous solutions (20 mg L−1, pH 3.0), 20 mg ZnxFe(3-x)O4, and 2.0 mL H2O2 (aqueous solution at 0.028 mol L−1) were placed under UV light at 25 °C. Under these experimental conditions the degradation rate of indigo carmine was superior to 98%.

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