Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Afyon Kocatepe Üniversitesi Fen ve Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi, cilt.22, sa.5, ss.1139-1148, 2022 (Hakemli Dergi)
Water shortage is one of the most urgent issues today, owing to rising population and environmental reasons. The most significant thing that humanity can do to solve this situation is to recycle waste or contaminated water. ZnO has been widely employed for photocatalytic applications due to its unique features. It was aimed to improve the photocatalytic properties of the micron-sized ZnO particles by doping with Cerium dopant, which is a rare earth element and used in many photocatalytic studies. Structural, morphological, optical, and photocatalytic properties were characterized to examine the effect of the Ce dopant ratio. The increased grain size demonstrated that Ce4+ was efficiently integrated into the ZnO lattice. Ce doping into the Wurtzite ZnO lattice improved both the emission and photocatalytic efficiency of the micro-sized ZnO particles. Additionally, it was revealed that the Ce doping procedure is more effective than grain size on the photocatalytic efficiency.