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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Vanalakar, Sharadrao A
• Patil, Satish M
• Patil, Vithoba L
• Vhanalkar, Sagar A
• Patil, Pramod S
• Kim, Jin H

Titel

Simplistic eco-friendly preparation of nanostructured Cu^sub 2^FeSnS^sub 4^ powder for solar photocatalytic degradation

Ist Teil von

• Materials science & engineering. B, Solid-state materials for advanced technology, 2018-03, Vol.229, p.135

Ort / Verlag

Lausanne: Elsevier BV

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

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Quelle

Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Environmentally benign Cu-based multinary chalcogenidessuch as Cu2FeSnS4 (CFFS) are fascinating growing attention owing to their outstanding opto-electronics properties. Here we developed a simple, low cost and industrial scalable ball milling procedure for the eco-friendly synthesis of nanostructured CFTS powder without the need for organic solvents, amines or catalysts. The nanostructured CFTS powder were characterized by various techniques. The phase pure CFTS structure of the product was confirmed by XRD, Raman spectroscopy and EDX analysis. The TEM images confirmed its nanostructured form with particle size around 30 inn. The band gap of the nanostructured CFFS powder was found to be 1.42 eV, which is suitable for multiple applications including photo-catalysis. Further, the synthesized nanocrystalline CFTS powder were used as a solar photocatalyst to explore the degradation of Rhodamine B dye under visible-light. The dye significantly degraded within 120 mm under sun light irradiation.