A facile and effective technique to immobilize photocatalyst nanoparticles by incorporating zinc oxide (ZnO) into polyethersulfone polymeric films by means of a phase inversion technique is reported. The degradation study of methyl orange (MO) dye was performed using a series of ZnO-embedded polymer hybrid systems. The photoactivity of the films increased in parallel with increased ZnO loading up to 17 wt%. The photodegradation process followed a pseudo first-order kinetics with an achievement of almost 100% MO removal in original conditions. The PZ-17 film demonstrated an excellent and comparable degradation performance up to five cycles, signifying the reliability of the film photocatalyst against ultraviolet irradiation and degradation.
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Hir, Z. A. M., Abdullah, A. H., Zainal, Z., & Lim, H. N. (2017). Photoactive hybrid film photocatalyst of polyethersulfone-zno for the degradation of methyl orange dye: Kinetic study and operational parameters. Catalysts, 7(11). https://doi.org/10.3390/catal7110313
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