Mechanistic insights into the selective photocatalytic degradation of dyes over TiO<sub>2</sub>/ZSM-11

doi:10.1007/s11783-023-1701-5

Front. Environ. Sci. Eng.

2023, Vol. 17

Issue (8) : 101 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-023-1701-5

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Mechanistic insights into the selective photocatalytic degradation of dyes over TiO₂/ZSM-11

Zhou Zhang¹, Kai Huo², Tingxuan Yan¹, Xuwen Liu⁴, Maocong Hu¹, Zhenhua Yao¹(

), Xuguang Liu²(

), Tao Ye³(

)

¹. Department of Chemical Engineering, Jianghan University, Wuhan 430056, China
². College of Materials Science and Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, China
³. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD 57701, USA
⁴. State Key Laboratory of Precision Blasting, Jianghan University, Wuhan 430056, China

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Abstract

● TiO₂/ZSM-11 was prepared by a facile solid state dispersion method.

● Mechanism for photocatalytic degradation of dyes was investigated.

● Both experimental and MD simulations were conducted.

● Chemisorption instead of electrostatic interaction played a critical role.

Photocatalytic degradation is a promising way to eliminate dye contaminants. In this work, a series of TiO₂/ZSM-11 (TZ) nanocomposites were prepared using a facile solid state dispersion method. Methyl orange (MO), methylene blue (MB), and rhodamine B (RhB) were intentionally chosen as target substrates in the photocatalytic degradation reactions. Compared to pristine TiO₂, negative effect was observed on MO degradation while promoted kinetics were collected on MB and RhB over TZ composites. Moreover, a much higher photocatalytic rate was interestingly achieved on RhB than MB, which indicated that a new factor has to be included other than the widely accepted electrostatic interaction mechanism to fully understand the selective photodegradation reactions. Systematic characterizations showed that TiO₂ and ZSM-11 physically mixed and maintained both the whole framework and local structure without chemical interaction. The different trends observed in surface area and the photo-absorption ability of TZ composites with reaction performance further excluded both as the promotion mechanism. Instead, adsorption energies predicted by molecular dynamics simulations suggested that differences in the adsorption strength played a critical role. This work provided a deep mechanistic understanding of the selective photocatalytic degradation of dyes reactions, which helps to rationally design highly efficient photocatalysts.

Keywords Selective dye degradation Photocatalysis TiO₂ ZSM-11 Chemisorption

Corresponding Author(s): Zhenhua Yao,Xuguang Liu,Tao Ye

Issue Date: 13 March 2023

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Zhou Zhang,Kai Huo,Tingxuan Yan, et al. Mechanistic insights into the selective photocatalytic degradation of dyes over TiO₂/ZSM-11[J]. Front. Environ. Sci. Eng., 2023, 17(8): 101.

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Fig.1 Reaction performance of the prepared catalysts for photocatalytic degradation of MO (a), MB (b), and RhB (c); pseudo-first-order kinetic fittings of experimental data from photocatalytic degradation of MO (d), MB (e), and RhB (f) over different catalysts; where C and C₀ is the sampling and initial concentration of the dye.

Tab.1 Apparent rate constant (k_app, × 10⁻³ min⁻¹) of different catalysts for photocatalytic degradation of methyl orange (MO), methylene blue (MB), and rhodamine B (RhB) based on pseudo-first-order reaction kinetics

Fig.2 XRD patterns (a) and FT-IR spectra (b) of TiO₂, ZSM-11, 6.25TZ, 12.5TZ, 25TZ, 50TZ, and 75TZ.

Fig.3 Typical SEM images of ZSM-11 (a), 50TZ (b); TEM images of TiO₂ (c), ZSM-11 (d), 6.25TZ (e), 12.5TZ (f), 25TZ (g), 50TZ (h), 75TZ (i).

Tab.2 Measured specific surface area and pore structure of TiO₂/ZSM-11 composite catalysts with N₂ physisorption

Fig.4 UV-Vis DRS (a) and Tauc plots (b) of TiO₂, ZSM-11, 6.25TZ, 12.5TZ, 25TZ, 50TZ, and 75TZ.

Fig.5 Optimized structures for the adsorption of different dyes over ZSM-11 with the side view of initial, transition, and final state, and top view of final state (from top to down): MO (a); MB (b); RhB (c).

Fig.6 Adsorption energies between ZSM-11 and dyes.

Fig.7 Different adsorption strength of three dyes over TiO₂/ZSM-11.

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