Facile Synthesis and Characterization of Nanoporous NiO with Folic Acid as Photodegredation Catalyst for Congo Red

Faezeh Farzaneh, Sara Haghshenas

Department of Chemistry, University of Alzahra, Vanak, P.O.Box 1993891176, Vanak, Tehran, Iran.

DOI: 10.4236/msa.2012.310102                

Abstract

In this study nanoporous NiO was prepared using Ni(CH₃COO)₂,4H₂O, folic acid and water as starting material, template and solvent respectively, by sol gel method followed by calcination at 400℃. The solid product was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), nitrogen adsorption-desorption, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) and photoluminescence (PL) techniques. The particle size of the nanoparticles estimated by XRD was in good agreement with the particle size obtained by TEM analysis (4-5nm). It was also found that the prepared nanoporous NiO show very good activity for photodegredation of dye organic pollutants such as Congo red (91%) during 1.5 hours.

Keywords

Nanoporous NiO; Photodegredation; Congo Red; Folic Acid

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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