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Fabrication of Ce doped CoIn2S4 microspheres as efficient photocatalyst for degradation of rhodamine B

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Photocatalysis, as one of the most advanced oxidation techniques, has been paid more and more attention due to its advantages in solving environmental pollution problems, such as low cost, eco-friendly, efficiently and no secondary pollution. In this paper, we fabricated a series of Ce doped CoIn2S4 photocatalyst with different Ce content via solvothermal reaction and explored the influence of Ce on the photocatalytic activity of CoIn2S4. The properties of all samples were characterized by X-ray diffractometer (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM), ultraviolet spectrophotometer (UV–vis), transmission electron microscope (TEM) and so on. The results show that the do** of Ce can highly improve the photocatalytic activity of CoIn2S4. When CoIn2S4 is doped with 0.1 g of Ce(NO3)3·6H2O, it exhibits the highest photocatalytic activity and can degrade 98.55% of rhodamine B (RhB). This strategy of do** rare earth element on semiconductor provides a facile and promising way to the remediation of environmental pollution.

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The authors wish to acknowledge the financial support from the Postdoctoral Science Foud of Lishui City (20201030-Y), Scientific and Technology Planning Project of Nan** (N2020Z015 and 2022-ZXHZ-002), Teachers and Students jointly Create a Scientific Research Team Project of Wuyi University (2020-SSTD-05), the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province (2022J011201), Open Fund of Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Eco-Industrial Green Technology in Wuyi University (WYKF-EIGT2021-5), the Program for Outstanding Young Scientific Research Talents in Fujian Province University (MinKeJiao, 2018, No 47) and the XPS analysis performed by the Shiyanjia Lab (www.shiyanjia.com).

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    **aobing Yang, Ming Fang & Taichao Su

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    **aobing Yang, Junjie Pan & Kejun Cheng

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Yang, X., Pan, J., Fang, M. et al. Fabrication of Ce doped CoIn2S4 microspheres as efficient photocatalyst for degradation of rhodamine B. J Sol-Gel Sci Technol 104, 380–386 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10971-022-05945-3

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