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Preparation of iron oxide by electrodeposition method and its photocatalytic performance

YINCHANG LI1, LILI JI2, JUN YANG1, JUNXIA WANG1, JIEYU CHEN1, FEI LI1, HONGYUN JIN1, YONGQIAN WANG1,*

Affiliation

  1. Material science and Chemical faculty of China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
  2. Jiangcheng College of China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430 200, China

Abstract

In this article, we prepared the metallic iron on the cathode in borate electrolyte which contains ferrous ions by electrodeposition method, and heated the iron to be iron oxide in the muffle fu rn ace . Then analyzed the iron oxide’s structural, morphological and element compositional by X-ray diffraction(XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) SEM), and also for its fluorescence analysis and light catalysis research . The results indicated that the iron oxide we prepared is given priority to ferric oxide , and contains a small amount of ferrous oxide , and it is existed in crystalline form . The morphology of iron oxide is almost appeared flake, and gathered tog ether with irregular size, there are two crests on iron oxide’s fluorescence and one renders purple light and another renders blue light, iron oxide has a good catalytic effect on the photo degradation of organics when be used as catalyst..

Keywords

Iron oxide,Electrodeposition, Photo decomposition.

Citation

YINCHANG LI, LILI JI, JUN YANG, JUNXIA WANG, JIEYU CHEN, FEI LI, HONGYUN JIN, YONGQIAN WANG, Preparation of iron oxide by electrodeposition method and its photocatalytic performance, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 8, 1-2, January-February 2014, pp.131-134 (2014).

Submitted at: Sept. 15, 2013

Accepted at: Jan. 22, 2014