Excellent photocatalytic reduction of nitroarenes to aminoarenes by BiVO4 nanoparticles grafted on reduced graphene oxide (rGO/BiVO4)
Roya Azad
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic Science, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili 179, Ardabil, Iran
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Abolfazl Bezaatpour
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic Science, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili 179, Ardabil, Iran
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Abolfazl Bezaatpour, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic Science, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili 179, Ardabil, Iran.
Email: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorMandana Amiri
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic Science, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili 179, Ardabil, Iran
Search for more papers by this authorHabibollah Eskandari
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic Science, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili 179, Ardabil, Iran
Search for more papers by this authorSima Nouhi
Institute of Chemistry, Chemical Technology 1, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Carl-von-Ossietzky-Str. 9-11, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany
Search for more papers by this authorDereje H. Taffa
Institute of Chemistry, Chemical Technology 1, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Carl-von-Ossietzky-Str. 9-11, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany
Search for more papers by this authorMichael Wark
Institute of Chemistry, Chemical Technology 1, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Carl-von-Ossietzky-Str. 9-11, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany
Search for more papers by this authorRabah Boukherroub
Univ. Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille, ISEN, Univ. Valenciennes, UMR 8520 - IEMN, F-59000 Lille, France
Search for more papers by this authorSabine Szunerits
Univ. Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille, ISEN, Univ. Valenciennes, UMR 8520 - IEMN, F-59000 Lille, France
Search for more papers by this authorRoya Azad
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic Science, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili 179, Ardabil, Iran
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Abolfazl Bezaatpour
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic Science, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili 179, Ardabil, Iran
Correspondence
Abolfazl Bezaatpour, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic Science, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili 179, Ardabil, Iran.
Email: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorMandana Amiri
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic Science, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili 179, Ardabil, Iran
Search for more papers by this authorHabibollah Eskandari
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic Science, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili 179, Ardabil, Iran
Search for more papers by this authorSima Nouhi
Institute of Chemistry, Chemical Technology 1, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Carl-von-Ossietzky-Str. 9-11, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany
Search for more papers by this authorDereje H. Taffa
Institute of Chemistry, Chemical Technology 1, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Carl-von-Ossietzky-Str. 9-11, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany
Search for more papers by this authorMichael Wark
Institute of Chemistry, Chemical Technology 1, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Carl-von-Ossietzky-Str. 9-11, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany
Search for more papers by this authorRabah Boukherroub
Univ. Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille, ISEN, Univ. Valenciennes, UMR 8520 - IEMN, F-59000 Lille, France
Search for more papers by this authorSabine Szunerits
Univ. Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille, ISEN, Univ. Valenciennes, UMR 8520 - IEMN, F-59000 Lille, France
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A novel heterogeneous composite material based on reduced graphene oxide (rGO) and bismuth vanadate (BiVO4) was prepared and characterized by various techniques such as powder XRD, HRTEM, EADX, UV–Vis-DRS, FT-IR, Raman, BET and XPS analyses. The characterization results reveal that the rGO well decorated by BiVO4. The electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) shows the increasing of charge transfer of rGO/BiVO4 in presence of light irradiation. In this research, the pure BiVO4 and rGO/BiVO4 composite have been explored for photocatalytic reduction of nitroarenes. Among the prepared nanocomposites, rGO loaded with 10% BiVO4 catalyst (noted as rGO/BiVO4–10%) shows the best performance for the photo-reduction of various nitroaromatic molecules to their corresponding amine compounds under visible-light irradiation at room temperature. The catalyst exhibited in particular excellent photocatalytic activity for the conversion of 1,4-dinitrobenzene to 4-nitroanilline (100% conversion) in 20 min, 4-chloronitrobenzene to 4-chloroaniline and 2-nitrophenol to 2-aminophenol (100% conversion) in only 30 min. In addition, the conversion of 4-bromonitrobenzene, 4-iodonitrobenzene to their corresponding amine compounds (100% conversion) was achieved in 60 min. The catalyst was recovered for several times and reused without decreasing of its efficiency.
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