TY  - EJOU
AU  - Fatima, A. 
AU  - Nadeem, N. 
AU  - Saleh, Bahaa 
AU  - Rehan, Z. A. 
AU  - Noreen, S. 
AU  - Ali, Hafiz T. 
AU  - Zahid, M. 

TI  - Harnessing the sunlight to degrade dye using polythiophene-based silver dopped ZnS composite
T2  - Chalcogenide Letters

PY  - 2024
VL  - 21
IS  - 11
SN  - 1584-8663

AB  - 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.
KW  - Photocatalyst
KW  -  Conducting polymer
KW  -  Polymer composites
KW  -  Ag-ZnS
KW  -  Hydrothermal
KW  -  Wastewater treatment

DO  - 10.15251/CL.2024.2111.895