International Journal of Applied Science and Engineering
Published by Chaoyang University of Technology

Sampath Krishnan1*, Pradeeba Shanmugam Jaiganesh2, Anusha Karunakaran3, Keerthika Kumarasamy4, Mei-Ching Lin4

1 Department of Chemistry, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India
2 Department of Chemistry, Hindusthan College of Engineering and Technology, Tamil Nadu, India
3 Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India
4 Department of Applied Chemistry, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C.


 

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Advanced oxidation process (AOP) is a recently developed by the researchers for the wastewater treatment over a decade which has more advantages when compared with other conventional methods. Photocatalysis is the most efficient and attractive techniques for the degradation of organic pollutant using semiconductor nanostructured material in presence of solar energy. The researchers decided on the rising deprivation rate of pollutants by incorporating inorganic materials into conducting polymers to understand its synergistic and complementary behaviour among the polymer and inorganic materials. Based on this, the present study is to synthesize polymeric nanocomposite material ZnO with polyazomethine (PNZ) and TiO2 with polyazomethine (PNT) through ultrasonication technique. The synthesized polymeric nanocomposites were used for the photodegradation of cationic and anionic dyes. These synthesized polymeric nanocomposites can act as a potential alternate in future due to its enhanced dye degradation ability and higher stability nature. By varying pH of the dye solution at different time interval the degradation efficiency of photocalatystswere analyzed and found that cationic dyes are removed more when compared to anionic dyes.


Keywords: Photocatalytic degradation, Polymer nanocomposite, Cationic dyes, Anionic dyes.


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ARTICLE INFORMATION


Received: 2020-10-10
Revised: 2021-03-18
Accepted: 2021-04-29
Available Online: 2021-09-01


Cite this article:

Krishnan, S., Pradeeba, S.J., Karunakaran, A., Kumarasamy, K., Lin, M.-C. 2021. The effect of pH on the photocatalytic degradation of cationic and anionic dyes using polyazomethine/ZnO and polyazomethine/TiO2 nanocomposites. International Journal of Applied Science and Engineering. 18, 2020247. https://doi.org/10.6703/IJASE.202109_18(5).008

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