Title: Environmental pollution cleaning using organic smart material by photocatalysis

Abstract

Complex aromatic organic dyes and pigments are the vital waste which damages the human health as well as aquatic life. Researchers are working to overcome this serious issue from many years, but to developed cost-effective and eco-friendly method is unsolved challenge. Of late, inorganic based photocatalysis helps to treat industrial wastewater up to some extent. Various inorganic semiconductor photocatalysts with high efficiency have been reported with different dyes degradation study. We have synthesized PQ an intermediate require synthesizing Pentacene which is well known organic semiconductor from last couple of decades. After complete characterization using spectroscopic and microscopic techniques, we explored PQ for Industrial Dye degradation and Photocatalytical H2S splitting for the first time. We also synthesized composite system of PQ-TiO2 with inorganic semiconductor photocatalyst. Recently a report of PQ-MoS2 photocatalyst also covers the water splitting area. This organic PQ photocatalyst have high potential in photocatalysis field which can be utilized for the clean environment and for water treatment.