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Facile co-precipitation thermal degradation synthesis of CeO2 nanoparticles and their photocatalytic degradation of Rhodamine B

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Ceria (CeO2) nanoparticles were successfully synthesized by co-precipitation thermal degradation at 500 °C and 600 °C as a facile and low-cost method. The as-prepared CeO2 nanoparticles were characterized by FT-IR, UV–Vis, XRD and TEM. XRD patterns confirm a cubic phase of nanomaterials with an average crystallite size of 11.2 nm and 17.1 nm for Ce-1 and Ce-2, respectively. The effect of calcination temperature has been studied on the morphology, properties and photocatalytic degradation of Rhodamine B (Rh-B) under UV light. FT-IR spectra present strong bands assigned to Ce–O–Ce vibration below 550 cm−1 for both samples. UV–Vis spectra show maximum absorbance at 352 nm with an optical bandgap of ≈ 2.96 and 3.18 eV, respectively. TEM images reveal that the particles Ce-1 and Ce-2 have approximately the average size of 11.2 and 17.1 nm with same shapes. All results confirm the synthesis of pure and single crystalline phase of the CeO2 nanoparticles. In addition, photocatalytic degradation of Rh-B dye was studied under UV light, and the effects of initial concentration of dyes, sorbent dose and contact time were investigated. Based on performed measurements, we can declare that CeO2 nanoparticles achieve good efficient photocatalytic performance for Rh-B dye degradation.

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M.J.Ansari and A.M. Abed would like to thank the Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz and Al-Mustaqbal University for their financial supports. The work was supported by Operational Programme Research, Development and Education financed by European Structural and Investment Funds and the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (Project No. SOLID21 CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000760). A.D. Khalaji would like to thank the Golestan University for its financial supports.

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  2. Institute of Physic of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 2, 182 21, Prague, Czech Republic

    Pavel Machek & Marketa Jarosova

  3. Department of Air Conditioning and Refrigeration, Al-Mustaqbal University College, Babylon, Iraq

    Azher M. Abed

  4. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Golestan University, Gorgān, Iran

    Aliakbar Dehno Khalaji

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MJA and AMA investigated the photocatalytic degradation of Rh-B using CeO2 nanoparticles. MJ and PM gathered XRD and TEM image. ADK prepared the CeO2 nanoparticles and write the MS. Finally, all author revised MS and approved the final version to be published.

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Ansari, M.J., Machek, P., Jarosova, M. et al. Facile co-precipitation thermal degradation synthesis of CeO2 nanoparticles and their photocatalytic degradation of Rhodamine B. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 33, 5686–5695 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-022-07754-4

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