Green Synthesis and Photocatalytic Dye Degradation Activity of CuO Nanoparticles

Sadia Aroob; Sónia A.C. Carabineiro; Muhammad Babar Taj; Ismat Bibi; Ahmad Raheel; Tariq Javed; Rana Yahya; Walla Alelwani; Francis Verpoort; Khanita Kamwilaisak; Saleh Al-Farraj; Mika Sillanpää

doi:10.3390/catal13030502

Green Synthesis and Photocatalytic Dye Degradation Activity of CuO Nanoparticles

Sadia Aroob, Sónia A.C. Carabineiro, Muhammad Babar Taj, Ismat Bibi, Ahmad Raheel, Tariq Javed, Rana Yahya, Walla Alelwani, Francis Verpoort, Khanita Kamwilaisak, Saleh Al-Farraj, Mika Sillanpää

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The degradation of dyes is a difficult task due to their persistent and stable nature; therefore, developing materials with desirable properties to degrade dyes is an important area of research. In the present study, we propose a simple, one-pot mechanochemical approach to synthesize CuO nanoparticles (NPs) using the leaf extract of Seriphidium oliverianum, as a reducing and stabilizing agent. The CuO NPs were characterized via X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), photoluminescence (PL) and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). The photocatalytic activity of CuO NPs was monitored using ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy. The CuO NPs exhibited high potential for the degradation of water-soluble industrial dyes. The degradation rates for methyl green (MG) and methyl orange (MO) were 65.231% ± 0.242 and 65.078% ± 0.392, respectively. Bio-mechanochemically synthesized CuO NPs proved to be good candidates for efficiently removing dyes from water.

Original language	English
Article number	502
Journal	Catalysts
Volume	13
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/catal13030502
Publication status	Published - Mar 2023

Keywords

biomimetic
copper oxide
degradation
dyes
environmentally benign
methyl green
methyl orange
nanoparticles
photocatalysis
photochemical
purification
waste management
wastewater

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Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

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