Investigation of the photocatalytic efficiency of tantalum alkoxy carboxylate-derived Ta₂O₅ nanoparticles in rhodamine B removal

• Subia Ambreen,
• Mohammad Danish,
• Narendra D. Pandey and
• Ashutosh Pandey

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 604–613, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.65

• nanoparticles efficiently removed rhodamine B under UV light irradiation. Keywords: alkoxy carboxylates; band gap; dynamic light scattering (DLS); rhodamine B; scanning electron microscopy (SEM); tantalum(V) oxide (Ta2O5) nanoparticles; TEM; X-ray diffraction (XRD); Introduction Nowadays, the purification of