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Title
  • Synthesis of stainless steel nanoballs via submerged glow-discharge plasma and its photocatalytic performance in methylene blue decomposition
Creator

bin Julaihi, Muhammad Rafiq Mirza

Yatsu, Shigeo

NRID 1000040111158

Jeem, Melbert

Watanabe, Seiichi

NRID 1000060241353
Rights
    • This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Experimental Nanoscience on 2015-08-14, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17458080.2014.951408.
Subject
  • Other stainless steel
  • Other photocatalytic
  • Other nanoballs
  • Other methylene blue
  • NDC 504
Description
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  • Stainless steel nanoparticles or 'nanoballs' have been synthesised using submerged glow-discharge plasma. Transmission electron microscopy showed that the nanoballs are uniformly spherical and size distribution estimation showed that their diameters are below 200nm. The decomposition of methylene blue solution under ultraviolet light with the wavelength of 354nm was observed in the presence of stainless steel nanoballs. A mixture of stainless steel nanoballs and 0.1% methylene blue dye was irradiated with ultraviolet light. The concentration of methylene blue was reduced to baseline level in 72hours. This shows that the stainless steel nanoballs have photocatalytic ability. In stainless steel nanoballs, methylene blue showed two different decomposition pathways; showing fast and slow reactions. Also, methylene blue was oxidised into sulphoxide before reducing into lighter by-products. X-ray diffraction analysis has shown that the nanoballs consist of Fe2O3 and Cr2O3, which are photocatalytically active species.
PublisherTaylor & Francis
Date Issued 2015-08-14
Languageeng
NIItypejournal article
VersiontypeAM
Identifier URI http://hdl.handle.net/2115/62684
Relation
  • isIdenticalTo DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/17458080.2014.951408
Journal
    • ISSN 1745-8080
    • Journal of experimental nanoscience
    10(12), 965-982
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