Verma, Manish KumarKumar, VinodPatel, UpakarRai, Vishnu ShankarPrajapati, DineshDe, Arup KumarPrajapati, Aditya Kumarsahoo, KedarDas, TapasSingh, N.B.Mandal, K. D.2022-08-232022-08-232022-08-03https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1861487/v1http://hdl.handle.net/11603/25552Polycrystalline Bi36Fe2O57 (BFO) ceramic was prepared by an economical chemical route. The X-ray powder diffraction analysis shows the formation of single-phase BFO ceramic. Nanosized formation of BFO ceramic particles was characterized by XRD as well as TEM and had particle size 76 ± 10 nm range. The sillenite type Bi36Fe2O57 shows better photocatalytic activity for the methylene blue (MB) dye degradation under visible light exposure than the perovskite-based BiFeO3 due to the low band gap(1.8eV) of the former. The photocatalytic mechanism of MB degradation over Bi36Fe2O57 ceramic can be explained by the Langmuir-Hinshelwood model which reflects the adsorption-controlled photocatalytic process.13 pagesen-USThis item is likely protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. Unless on a Creative Commons license, for uses protected by Copyright Law, contact the copyright holder or the author.Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Text