| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2025 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Advances in Ceramic Materials and Processing
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| Presentation Title |
Degradation of Orange II Dye of Zn Doped Copper Oxide Thin Films Deposited by Spin Coating Method |
| Author(s) |
Madiha Zerouali, Dikra Bouras, Mamoun Fellah, Radouane Daira , Regis Barille, Manel Sellam |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Madiha Zerouali |
| Abstract Scope |
This study focuses on investigating the structural, morphological, optical, and electrical characteristics of copper oxide (CuO) that has been doped with varying concentrations (x = 4%, 10% of zinc (Zn) by the utilization of sol-gel spin coating technique. The Cu1-xZnxO thin films underwent characterization using several analytical techniques, including X-ray diffraction, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), UV-visible spectrophotometry, and the four-point method. Based on the X-ray diffraction (XRD) findings, it can be observed that all of the films exhibit a polycrystalline structure, characterized by a range of crystallite sizes spanning from 24 to 45 nanometers. The FT-IR results prove that copper-oxygen bonds was formed .The enhanced capacitance is elucidated by the presence of Zn particles within CuO nanostructures, which results in a notable enhancement of electrical conductivity. The introduction of Zn impurity into copper oxide resulted in a substantial enhancement in its photocatalysis activity when thin films of CuO doped with 10%wt. Zn are used, the best degradation of a dye (Orange II) reaches 28 %.
Kyeswords: Thin films; copper oxide; sol gel; dye; photocatalysis activity |
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