The Synthesis of Photocatalyst Material ZnO using the Simple Sonication Method

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ZnO is well known as photocatalyst material therefore potentially to applied in many purposes. The particle size of photocatalyst material influenced the catalytic activities. In this research, ZnO was synthesized using the simple sonication method to obtain the the smaller particle with sonication time variation respectively: 30, 60, 160, 360 minute. X-ray diffraction data showed that the synthesized material have wurtzite structure with space group P63 mc. The synthesized ZnO with 30 minutes sonication time produced the smallest particle size and have the lowest band gap energy (2.79 eV). The photocatalytic test at methylene blue also showed that the optimum activity was gained from ZnO which synthesized at 30 minute sonication time (degradation percentage of metylene blue is 77.93%).

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Faradis, R., Azizah, E. N., Marella, S. D., Aini, N., & Prasetyo, A. (2018). The Synthesis of Photocatalyst Material ZnO using the Simple Sonication Method. In IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering (Vol. 333). Institute of Physics Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/333/1/012019

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