Bi4Ti3O12 dan SrTiO3 merupakan material semikonduktor yang berpeluang untuk digunakan sebagai fotokatalis. Namun, kedua material tersebut memiliki kekurangan karena hanya mampu bekerja pada daerah sinar UV dan memiliki laju rekombinasi yang cepat. Pembuatan material heterojunction merupakan salah satu upaya untuk mengatasi masalah ini. Riset ini bertujuan untuk mempelajari sifat fotokatalitik komposit Bi4Ti3O12/SrTiO3 yang disintesis dengan metode sonikasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Bi4Ti3O12/SrTiO3 berhasil disintesis tanpa adanya pengotor. Mikrograf SEM menunjukkan bahwa Bi4Ti3O12 berbentuk plate-like sedangkan SrTiO3 berbentuk irregular spheres. Data UV-Vis DRS menunjukkan bahwa nilai energi celah pita Bi4Ti3O12/SrTiO3 dengan perbandingan mol (1/1), (1/2), (1/4), dan (1/6) berturut-turut adalah 3,178; 3,70; 3,137, dan 3,160 eV.
CaTiO3 as one of the perovskite-based photocatalysts has a band gap energy of 3.5 eV (~354 nm), thus will work at the ultraviolet light region. One of the strategies to decrease the band gap energy is doping metal. In this research, CaTiO3 was doped by Fe element as purposes to decreasing its band gap energy. Fe doped CaTiO3 compounds were synthesized using molten NaCl salt method. The diffractogram samples showed that the Fe-doped CaTiO3 crystal was successfully prepared. Meanwhile, the SEM images showed that the particle shape was regular polyhedral morphology, and doping Fe3+ caused the particle size to decrease and agglomerated. The UV-Vis DRS spectra showed that the Fe-dopant revealed the absorption light at visible range wavelength.
Bi4Ti3O12 is a tri-layer Aurivillius member compound that was reported to have good photocatalytic properties. Metal element doping and morphological particle tuning are strategies to increase photocatalyst activity. In this research, the compound micro sheets Bi4Ti3O12 and Bi4Ti2.95V0.05O12 were synthesized using molten NaCl/KCl salt. The diffractogram shows that the Bi4Ti3O12 sample was successfully synthesized, however, there are still found impurities at the Bi4Ti2.95V0.05O12 sample. Micrographs showed that the morphology particle samples is. The results of UV-Vis DRS spectra calculation show that both samples have a band gap energy of ~2.97 eV.
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