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ArticleScientific reports2025

Nitrogen and phosphorus Co-doped ZnO-CdO nanocomposite with boosted photocatalytic degradation of crystal violet.

Gebru Neda, Abi M Taddesse, Isabel Diaz, Ahmed M Mohammed, Álvaro Mayoral, Jemal M Yassin

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Gebru NedaDepartment of Chemistry, Haramaya University, P.O.Box 138, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia.
Abi M TaddesseDepartment of Chemistry, Haramaya University, P.O.Box 138, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia. abi.taddesse@haramaya.edu.et.
Isabel DiazInstituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica, CSIC, c/Marie Curie 2, Madrid, 28049, Spain.
Ahmed M MohammedDepartment of Chemistry, Addis Ababa University, P.O.Box. 1176, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Álvaro MayoralInstituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón (INMA), CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza, Calle de Pedro Cerbuna, Zaragoza, 12, 50009, Spain.
Jemal M YassinDepartment of Chemistry, Debre Berhan University, P.O.Box. 445, Debre Berhan, Ethiopia. jemalchemistry@gmail.com.

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Agencia Estatal de Investigación PID2022-136321OB-C21 funded by MCIN/AEI /10.13039/501100011033Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas COOPA20271, COOPB22002, and COOPB24072Haramaya University HURG-2016-03-02 and HURG-2020-03-02-75)Spanish Ministry of Science RYC2018-024561-I; CNS2023-144346
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Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) co-doped ZnO-CdO nanocomposites were synthesized from bioprecursors such as rice (O. Sativa L.), chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), soybean (G. max (L.) Merr) and sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) through self-doping into the ZnO-CdO composite. The as synthesized composites were characterized using PXRD, XPS, TGA, SEM, Cs-corrected (S) TEM, EDS, FT-IR, AAS and UV-vis spectrophotometer. Effect of biogenic doping on the band structures of the binary heterojunction was also studied using Density Functional Theory (DFT). The theoretical results showed that NP co-doping in ZnO-CdO nanocomposite improves the absorption edge to longer wavelengths in line with the experimental finding obtained from UV-vis measurement. Biogenic NP co-doped ZnO-CdO nanocomposites showed greater photocatalytic activity compared to the undoped congeners under visible light irradiations. Comparatively, photocatalytic activity of biogenic NP co-doped ZnO-CdO samples showed the order: soybean-ZC > chickpea-ZC > rice-ZC > sesame-ZC at optimal conditions under visible light irradiation. The binary ZnO-CdO nanocomposite also showed better photocatalytic activity compared to the host crystal ZnO under the same experimental conditions. Highest photocatalytic degradation efficiency of biogenic NP co-doped ZnO-CdO could be attributed to the lower rate of recombination of the photogenerated electrons and holes as well as its lower band gap energy and good reusability.

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Biogenic-dopingDFTPhotodegradationSelf-dopingThermal decompositionZnO-CdO

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