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Indexed by: Journal Article

Date of Publication: 2016-10-01

Journal: JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE

Included Journals: Scopus、PubMed、EI、SCIE

Volume: 479

Page Number: 89-97

ISSN: 0021-9797

Key Words: Reduced graphene oxide; Photocatalytic degradation; Short chain chlorinated paraffins; Plasmonic photocatalysis

Abstract: Short chain chlorinated paraffins have recently attracted great attention because of their environmental persistence and biological toxicity as an important organic pollutant. In this work, reduced graphene oxide/CoFe2O4/Ag (RGO/CoFe2O4/Ag) nanocomposite was prepared and employed for photocatalytic degradation of short chain chlorinated paraffins. The process of photocatalytic degradation of short chain chlorinated paraffins over RGO/CoFe2O4/Ag under visible light (lambda > 400 nm) was investigated by in situ Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and the related mechanisms were proposed. An apparent degradation ratio of 91.9% over RGO/CoFe2O4/Ag could be obtained under visible light illumination of 12 h, while only about 21.7% was obtained with commercial P25 TiO2 under the same experimental conditions, which demonstrates that the RGO/CoFe2O4/Ag nanocomposite is a potential candidate for effective photocatalytic removal of short chain chlorinated paraffins. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.