Paulo Cesar Faria

Research

Chemistry Synthesis, Characterization and Photocatalysis of KSr2Nb5O15 doped with Nickel

Article October 9, 2019

Potassium and strontium niobate (KSr2Nb5O15) of tungsten structure (TB) bronze was doped with nickel (Ni2+) with stoichiometry type KSr2NixNb5-xO15-δ onde x = 0,25; 0,50 and 0,75. The powders were prepared by chemical synthesis using the modified Polyol method, and characterized by infrared spectroscopy with Fourier transform (FT-IR), by X-ray diffraction (XRD), including the network parameters (relative intensity - IR(KSNNi0,50) ˃ IR(KSNNI0,25) ˃ IR(KSNNI0,75) ) and crystallite size. The effects of doping (Ni2+) in the process of photo degradation were studied, the absorbance as a function of time for the Basic Blue dye 41 result from the photo degradation performed with the photo catalyst KSNNi0,50 presented a lower absorbance value, and the spectrophotometer was used in the UV-vis region.