@Article{CL.2024.2111.895,
AUTHOR = {A. Fatima, N. Nadeem, Bahaa Saleh, Z. A. Rehan, S. Noreen, Hafiz T. Ali, M. Zahid},
TITLE = {Harnessing the sunlight to degrade dye using polythiophene-based silver dopped ZnS composite},
JOURNAL = {Chalcogenide Letters},
VOLUME = {21},
YEAR = {2024},
NUMBER = {11},
PAGES = {895--915},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/CL/v21n11/64918},
ISSN = {1584-8663},
ABSTRACT = {The current research work investigated the photocatalytic degradation of dye using 
polythiophene-based silver-doped zinc sulfide (PT/Ag-ZnS). The ternary composite was 
synthesized by in-situ chemical oxidation polymerization approach and thoroughly 
characterized. Maximum photocatalytic activity depicted > 80% for Ag-ZnS and > 94% for 
PT/Ag-ZnS at pH 7 and 4 respectively at 10 mM oxidant and 30 mg/100 mL catalyst dose, 
10 ppm IDC under 90 min. DMSO serves as an effective radical scavenger. The novel 
polymeric composite exhibits efficient reusability upto five cycles. Pseudo 1<sup>st</sup>
-order kinetic 
model was best fitted for PT/Ag-ZnS. Toxicity analysis gave a green clue of treated water.},
DOI = {10.15251/CL.2024.2111.895}
}