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High visible light-driven photocatalytic activity of large surface area Cu doped SnO2 nanorods synthesized by novel one-step microwave irradiation method

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The paper investigates the structural, optical and photocatalytic activity of large surface area single crystalline copper (Cu) doped SnO2 nanorods (NRs) synthesized by a novel one-step microwave irradiation method. Powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis confirms that both pure and Cu doped SnO2 are tetragonal rutile type structure (space group P42/mnm) formed during the microwave process within 10 min without any post annealing treatment. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) reveals that the as synthesized Cu doped SnO2 samples exhibited rod-like shape and the length was less than 80 nm and diameter was about few nanometers. Typical selected-area electron diffraction (SAED) pattern indicates that, the growth direction of Cu–SnO2 nanorod is along [110] direction. The variety of phonon interaction in the pure and Cu doped SnO2 is observed by Raman spectroscopy. Electron paramagnetic resonance and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) confirms that the presence of copper and tin as Cu2+ and Sn4+ in state, respectively. The photocatalytic activity was monitored via the degradation of methylene blue (MB) and Rhodamine B (RhB) dyes and the Cu–SnO2 showed better photocatalytic activity than that of pure SnO2. This could be attributed to the effective electron–hole separation by surface modification.

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  1. PG and Research Department of Physics, Chikkaiah Naicker College, Erode, Tamilnadu, 638 004, India

    M. Parthibavarman, M. Jayashree & R. BoopathiRaja

  2. Research and Development Centre, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, 641 046, India

    S. Sathishkumar

  3. Centre for Crystal Growth, VIT University, Vellore, Tamilnadu, 632 014, India

    S. Prabhakaran

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Parthibavarman, M., Sathishkumar, S., Prabhakaran, S. et al. High visible light-driven photocatalytic activity of large surface area Cu doped SnO2 nanorods synthesized by novel one-step microwave irradiation method. J IRAN CHEM SOC 15, 2789–2801 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13738-018-1466-0

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