Photocatalytic Degradation of Municipal Wastewater and Brilliant Blue Dye Using Hydrothermally Synthesized Surface-Modified Silver-Doped ZnO Designer Particles

Table 2

Photodegradation efficiency of the synthesized compounds with respect to weight and time under sunlight and UV light.

Weight of catalyst	% Efficiency of surface-modified silver- (1 mol%) doped ZnO		% Efficiency of surface-modified silver- (3 mol%) doped ZnO		% Efficiency of reagent grade ZnO
	sunlight	UV light	Sunlight	UV light	sunlight	UV light
10 mg	61.62	42.43	45.01	32.47	7.74	29.52
50 mg	66.42	47.23	49.44	36.9	8.85	30.62
70 mg	69.00	49.81	52.02	40.95	11.07	35.42

Time: 3 h.