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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Volume 21, Issue 2, Pages 263-267Publisher
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S1001-0742(08)62261-5
Keywords
photocatalysis; degradation of dye pollutants; metal ions; TiO2
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- Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2007AA061402]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [20537010, 20772129]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
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The photocatalytic degradation of dyes (Acid Chrome Blue K (ACBK) and Alizarin Red (AR)) with strong complexation ability was investigated in the presence of metal ions under visible light irradiation. It was found that, at low dye-metal ratio, the photodegradation of ACBK was markedly inhibited by the addition of high oxidative potential Cu2+. However, at high dye-metal ratio, the presence of Cu2+ enhanced the photodegradation of ACBK. The negtive effect of Cu2+ on the photodegradation of AR was observed for all dyemetal ratios. The relative chemical inert Zn2+ tended to enhance the photodegradation of both anionic dyes. The mechanism underlying the different effect of Cu2+ was discussed from the different roles of surface-adsorbed and dye-coordinated Cu2+ in the photodegradation of dyes.
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