Band-Gap-Engineered Ferroelectric Perovskite x KNbO3–(1 – x )BaFe0.5Nb0.5O3: Structural Phase Transition, Photophysics, DFT-Guided Charge-Transfer Mechanism and Superior Visible-Light Photocatalytic Degradation of Rhodamine B
We synthesize and characterize the solid-solution series xKNbO3–(1 – x)BaFe0.5Nb0.5O3 (x = 1.0 to 0.0) through solid–state reaction. Rietveld refinement and Raman spectroscopy confirm a composition-driven Bmm2→Pm3¯m structural phase transition that completes at x ≤ 0.3. UV–vis Tauc analysis shows the widest band gap...