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Preparation of CuSe-PDA/g-C3N4 and its visible-light photocatalytic performance to dye degradation

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CuSe as an excellent photocatalytic semiconductor material has wildly used in the field of photocatalysis. In this paper, CuSe-PDA/g-C3N4 was designed and synthesized, and the photocatalytic performance of CuSe was further enhanced by the addition of polydopamine (PDA) and graphite phase carbon nitride (g-C3N4). The as-prepared CuSe-PDA/g-C3N4 was characterized by scanning electron microscope (SEM), transmission electron microscope (TEM), X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), and elemental mapping. The specific surface area and porous characteristics of the material were also studied by N2 adsorption-desorption isotherm, which the specific surface area were 186.6 m2/g and pore size were of 3.1 nm by BET data analysis. The photocatalytic conditions for the degradation of methylene blue (MB) by CuSe-PDA/g-C3N4 were optimized in the experiment. The results showed that the photocatalytic performance of CuSe-PDA/g-C3N4 under visible-light illumination were better than CuSe and PDA owing to the narrow band gap energy and delayed electron-hole recombination. Under the optimized conditions, the removal rate reach to 99% of 50 mg/L MB within 60 min irradiation time. Moreover, the MB removal rate was over 90% through six repeated experiments, which proved that the CuSe-PDA/g-C3N4 composite nanomaterials have good stability and reusability.

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This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (ZR2017MB049).

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    Maojuan Bai, Chengcheng Xu, Xuanye Huang, Han Yin & Jun Wan

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Bai, M., Xu, C., Huang, X. et al. Preparation of CuSe-PDA/g-C3N4 and its visible-light photocatalytic performance to dye degradation. Environ Sci Pollut Res 28, 3465–3474 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-10747-7

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