Synthesis and structure of Bi2Ce2O7: a new compound exhibiting high solar photocatalytic activity.
A facile method of solution combustion was used to synthesize a new solid solution Bi(2)Ce(2)O(7). The structure was determined from powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) and found to crystallize in the space group Fm3m with cell parameter a = 5.46936(9) Å. The particle sizes varied from 5 to 6 nm. The degradation of cationic dye malachite green (MG) was investigated under solar radiation as the band gap of the material is 2.34 eV.
Solid Sate and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
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