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Removal of a Commercial Dye, Alizarin Red, by Solar Photocatalysis Involving the Heterosystem ZnO–SnO2

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Semiconductor ZnO–SnO2 heterostructures exhibiting higher photocatalytic activity than individual zinc and tin oxides in degradation of alizarin red S in aqueous solutions under sunlight irradiation were obtained. The optimal conditions for the process were determined, and it was shown that degradation follows a pseudo-first-order kinetics in the framework of the Langmuir–Hinshelwood model.

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  1. Laboratory of Engineering Reaction, Faculty of Mechanic and Engineering Processes USTHB, BP 32, Algiers, Algeria

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  2. Laboratory of Storage and Valorization of Renewable Energies, Faculty of Chemistry (USTHB) BP 32, Algiers, Algeria

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Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Éksperimental’naya Khimiya, Vol. 53, No. 6, pp. 388-392, November-December, 2017.

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Bouchaaba, H., Bellal, B. & Trari, M. Removal of a Commercial Dye, Alizarin Red, by Solar Photocatalysis Involving the Heterosystem ZnO–SnO2. Theor Exp Chem 53, 417–422 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11237-018-9540-3

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