<p>The dyeing industry wastewater has greatly hampered the ecological environment. The carbon quantum dots (CQDs) is a promising catalyst for photocatalytic degradation. To control the specified structure of CQDs, a designable-green deep eutectic solvents (DESs) was targeted as the precursor. In this work, a copper-doped solid-state Cu-CQDs was successfully prepared by combustion method from glycerol/choline chloride/CuCl<sub>2</sub>·2H<sub>2</sub>O DESs, and characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, XRD, XPS, UV–Vis spectroscopy, and fluorescence spectroscopy. The analysis revealed that the metallic copper-doped Cu-CQDs have better morphological and structural properties and exhibit good optics characteristics. The prepared CQDs were applied to the photocatalytic degradation of Rhodamine-B (RhB). It was found that the ⋅O<sub>2</sub><sup>−</sup> was the main active specie, and it can efficient degrade RhB up to 95%.</p> Graphical abstract <p></p>

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Precursor Controlled Copper-Doped Carbon Quantum Dots Efficient for the Degradation of Rhodamine-B

  • Yunfei Li,
  • Zhichang Liu,
  • Hongwei Ren,
  • Chunmao Chen

摘要

The dyeing industry wastewater has greatly hampered the ecological environment. The carbon quantum dots (CQDs) is a promising catalyst for photocatalytic degradation. To control the specified structure of CQDs, a designable-green deep eutectic solvents (DESs) was targeted as the precursor. In this work, a copper-doped solid-state Cu-CQDs was successfully prepared by combustion method from glycerol/choline chloride/CuCl2·2H2O DESs, and characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, XRD, XPS, UV–Vis spectroscopy, and fluorescence spectroscopy. The analysis revealed that the metallic copper-doped Cu-CQDs have better morphological and structural properties and exhibit good optics characteristics. The prepared CQDs were applied to the photocatalytic degradation of Rhodamine-B (RhB). It was found that the ⋅O2 was the main active specie, and it can efficient degrade RhB up to 95%.

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