[en] Since the Industrial Revolution, technological advances have generated enormous emissions
of various pollutants affecting all ecosystems. The detection and degradation of pollutants has
therefore become a critical issue. More than 59 different remediation technologies have already been developed, such as biological remediation, and physicochemical and electrochemical methods. Among these techniques, advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) have been popularized in the treatment of wastewater. The use of ZnO as a photocatalyst for water remediation has been developing fast in recent years. In this work, the goals are to produce ZnO photocatalysts with different morphologies, by using a green sol-gel process, and to study both the influence of the synthesis parameters on the resulting morphology, and the influence of these different morphologies on the photocatalytic activity, for the degradation of an organic pollutant in water. Multiple morphologies were produced (nanotubes, nanorods, nanospheres), with the same crystalline phase (wurtzite). The most important parameter controlling the shape and size was found to be pH. The photoactivity study on a model of pollutant degradation shows that the resulting activity is mainly governed by the specific surface area of the material. A comparison with a commercial TiO2 photocatalyst (Evonik P25) showed that the best ZnO produced with this green process can reach similar photoactivity without a calcination step.
Disciplines :
Chemical engineering Materials science & engineering
Author, co-author :
Mahy, Julien ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Department of Chemical Engineering > Nanomaterials, Catalysis, Electrochemistry
Lejeune, Louise
Haynes, Tommy
Body, Nathalie
De Kreijger, Simon
Elias, Benjamin
Henrique Marques Marcilli, Raphael
Fustin, Charles-André
Hermans, Sophie
Language :
English
Title :
Crystalline ZnO Photocatalysts Prepared at Ambient Temperature: Influence of Morphology on p-Nitrophenol Degradation in Water
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