The invention discloses a novel photocatalyst for adsorbing and degrading azo dyes. The novel photocatalyst is Cr-doped ZnO containing a magnetic material and fixedly carried on
optical fiber. A preparation method of the photocatalyst comprises the following steps of: (S1) preparing the Cr-doped ZnO containing the magnetic material: dissolving soluble
zinc salt,
chromium salt and
ferric salt in
alcohol to obtain solution A, adding
alcohol solution of NaOH into the solution A, stirring, after heating for reaction, centrifugally separating,
drying precipitates to obtain Cr-ZnO / gamma-Fe2O3; (S2)using the
optical fiber to embed the Cr-ZnO / gamma-Fe2O3: (S21) removing an outer
coating layer on the surface of the
optical fiber, and exposing an optical-
fiber core body; (S22) adopting a
sol-
gel method to embed Cr-ZnO / gamma-Fe2O3 on the surface of the optical-
fiber core body to obtain the novel photocatalyst. The novel photocatalyst disclosed by the invention has the beneficial effects that thephotocatalyst is embedded on the surface of the optical
fiber, so that the defect that the photocatalyst in the ordinary porous carrier hole can not be illuminated by light to cause waste of the photocatalyst is overcome, and the effective
utilization rate of the photocatalyst is improved.