| Summary: | The dye wastewater which directly discharges without treatment process will affect the environment. The semiconductor like titanium dioxide (TiO2) has gained attention as most potential material for photocatalysis process to treat the dye wastewater with act as photocatalyst. However, this semiconductor has their limitation toward the photodegradation under visible light irradiation. In this study, TiO2 has been modified by doping with nitrogen (N) to improve the effectiveness under visible light irradiation. This simple prepared N-doped TiO2 was prepared by mixing of TiO2 powder with urea as N precursor under microwave irradiation instead of using muffle furnace as heating media. The nitogen was chemically bonded with TiO2 as proven by XPS analysis. N-doped TiO2 sample show active under visible light irradiation due to lower band gaps energy of sample observed by UV/Vis-DRS. An active photo response under visible light was observed from N-doped TiO2 with 80 minutes time irradiation to complete the reactive red 4 (RR4) color removal, while no photocatalytic degradation was observed from unmodified TiO2 under the same irradiation. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
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