Abstract:
Perovskite LaFeO
3 was synthesized by microwave hydrothermal method, with Co(NO
3)
2·6H
2O, Fe(NO
3)
3·9H
2O and La(NO
3)
3·H
2O as raw materials, citric acid and glucose as the complexing agent and template agent respectively. The products were characterized by XRD, SEM, TG-DSC and FT-IR. The results showed that the doping of Co was helpful to improve the photocatalystic performance of LaFeO
3, and the catalytic performance was better than that of pure LaFeO
3 sample. When the doping amount x was 0.1, the catalytic performance reached the best, and when the illumination time lasted for 150 min, the degradation rate of methyl orange solution reached 99.46 %, which was 36.51 % higher than that of pure LaFeO
3 sample.