Abstract:
The N-doped C coated NaTaO
3 composite was prepared through sol-gel method by using tantalic chloride (TaCl
5)
and sodium acetate as raw materials, melamine as N sources, cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB) and polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) as surfactant. The synthesized sample was characterized in detail by XRD, TEM, XPS and UV-Vis DRS. The dye rhodamine B (RhB) was used as a model contaminant to evaluate the adsorption and photocatalytic activity of N-doped carbon coated NaTaO
3. The results indicate that CTAB and PVP form ultra-thin carbon film around NaTaO
3, which not only limits the growth of NaTaO
3 particles, but also improves the adsorbability to target pollutants. The composites with tripolynitrile amines to TaCl
5 molar ratio
n=1.5 have the best visible light catalytic performance and the removal ratio of RhB achieves 96.46% under dark adsorption for 80 min and irradiation for 8 h. The photodegradation of RhB is in accordance with the pseudo first order reduction kinetics model.