Novel and Facile Synthesis of Carbon Quantum Dots from Chicken Feathers and Their Application as a Photocatalyst to Degrade Methylene Blue Dye

Table 1

CQDs-based materials’ synthesis and photocatalytic degradation of MB.

CQDs-based materials	Source	Method	Degradation achieved	Reference
TiO2-wsCQDs	Lemon peel	Hydrothermal	80.0% after 120 min	[58]
TNTs/CQDs	Citric acid	Hydrothermal	91.3% after 20 min	[65]
TiO2/NP-CQDs	Citric acid	Thermal treatment	40.0% after 20 min	[66]
CQDZ	Ammonium citrate	Thermal treatment	95.0% after 60 min	[57]
PVA/CQDs	D-glucose	Solution casting method	97.0% after 40 min	[67]
g-C3N4/NCQD	Citric acid	Hydrothermal	91.2% after 180 min	[60]
ZnO/C-dots	Glucose and copra oil	Solvothermal	96.0% after 30 min	[68]
ZnO-CDs	Grounded coffee	Hydrothermal	97.0% after 100 min	[69]
AuNPs/ZnO/CQDs	D-lactose	Hydrothermal	98.6% after 50 min	[70]
CQDs	Chicken feather	Hydrothermal	95.0% after 100 min	Present study