Sunlight irradiated facile synthesis of rGO: enhanced electrocatalytic oxidation of nitrite ions and photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue
摘要
Currently the inclusion of nitrite-based minerals is limitless which results in an obvious harmful impact on the environments. Hence the evolvement of a simple and highly responsive investigative technique for detecting nitrite becoming an essential priority. An uncomplicated green synthesis-based fabrication of Glassy Carbon Electrode (GCE) results into an ineluctable method for nitrate identification. The preparation of Graphene Oxide (GO) using modified Hummer’s method and reduced Graphene Oxide (rGO) along with a photo-assisted minimizing methodology serves as a benchmark. The rGO degradation efficiency attainted in the utilized technique is about 93.6%. Consequently, the sensor from rGO fabricated demonstrates an exceptional electrocatalytic characteristics in the electro-oxidation of nitrite and exhibits the photocatalytic behavior in against the Methylene Blue (MB) dye.
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