SUNLIGHT DRIVEN PHOTOCATALYTIC DEGRADATION OF 2-CHLOROPHENOL BY POLYPYRROLE/GRAPHENE OXIDE COMPOSITES
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Polypyrrole; Graphene Oxide; conducting polymer metal oxides photocatalytic degradation
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Polypyrrole/graphene oxide (PPy/GO) was synthesized and evaluated as an effective photocatalyst to degrade 2-chlorophenol from aqueous solution under solar light irradiation. The PPy/GO composite was synthesized by the incorporation of PPy with the GO using Hummer’s method(s). Three different compositions of PPy/GO composites were prepared with the varying ratio of PPy and GO (1:1, 1:4, 9:1). Physicochemical properties of pristine PPy, GO and as synthesized PPy/GO composites were characterized using FTIR, UV-Vis, XRD, and SEM with EDX. The characterizations results revealed that PPy was successfully integrated with the GO in the PPy/GO composites. The photodegradation of 10 ppm of 2-chlorophenol has been observed under sunlight for 3 hours with the exposure contact time of 180 minutes before being tested with UV-Vis in order to obtain the percentage of degradation in the sunlight. The degradation study exhibited that PPy/GO composite with the ratio of 1:1 exhibited the highest percentage of degradation of ~ 71.08 and 68.96 % at the time of 180 minutes and 3 hours respectively.
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Baharin, S. N. A., Sambasevam, K. P., Suhaimi, N. F., Rahat, A., Rahman, S., & Musiran, S. N. (2021). SUNLIGHT DRIVEN PHOTOCATALYTIC DEGRADATION OF 2-CHLOROPHENOL BY POLYPYRROLE/GRAPHENE OXIDE COMPOSITES. Malaysian Journal of Science, 40(1), 67–79. https://doi.org/10.22452/mjs.vol40no1.6
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Licensee MJS, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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