Photocatalytic Degradation of Methyl Orange using MoS2 nanoparticles as catalyst

Debabrat Kalita, Lakhi Chetia, Gazi A. Ahmed

Abstract


MoS2 is a semiconductor transition metal dichalcogenide material (TMD) which has exciting optoelectronic properties. Due to its band gap (BG) energy lying in the visible range it shows good photocatalytic behavior. In this report, we have synthesized MoS2 nanoparticles (NPs) and its morphology is characterized using XRD and SEM. EDX is performed to analyze the composition of the as-synthesized material. Multiple BG energy in the visible light range is observed from the analysis of UV-Visible spectroscopy. We have investigated the photocatalytic property by the degradation of Methyl Orange (MO) using MoS2 nanoparticles as catalyst. It is observed that the as-synthesized MoS2 NPs degrade MO very efficiently with 98% degradation using 1mg in 1ml 10μM dye solution in 2hr.

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