Solar light assisted photocatalytic degradation of hazardous and highly water soluble pesticide Methomyl using Flower like nano BiOCl

B. Pare¹ , S. Piplode² , V. Joshi³

1. Dept. of Chemistry, J. N. S. Govt. College (Vikram University), Shujalpur, India.
2. Dept. of Chemistry, Govt. Madhav Science College (Vikram University), Ujjain, India.
3. Dept. of Chemistry, Govt. Madhav Science College (Vikram University), Ujjain, India.

Correspondence should be addressed to: satish.piplode@gmail.com.

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Isroset-Journal
Vol.5 , Issue.5 , pp.5-11, Oct-2017

CrossRef-DOI:   https://doi.org/10.26438/ijsrpas/v5i5.511

Online published on Oct 30, 2017

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Abstract :
Flower like nano bismuth oxy chloride (BiOCl) was successfully synthesized by a simple hydrolytic method using Bi (NO3)3.5H2O as Bi source material at room temperature. The as-prepared samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), High Resolution Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (HR FESEM). The results indicated that the as-prepared BiOCl sample is self-assembled hierarchically with nano sheets. The photocatalytic activity of BiOCl was tested on the degradation of the methomyl under solar light irradiation. The results showed that pesticide molecules could be efficiently degraded over BiOCl under solar light irradiation.

Key-Words / Index Term :
BiOCl, Flowerlike, Pesticide, photocatalysis, methomyl, solar light

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