Synthesis of a Zinc Oxide Nanoflower Photocatalyst from Sea Buckthorn Fruit for Degradation of Industrial Dyes in Wastewater Treatment

Department of Oriental Medicinal Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Kyung Hee University Giheung-gu Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Yongin 446-701, Korea

Graduate School of Biotechnology and Ginseng Bank, College of Life Sciences, Kyung Hee University, Yongin 446-701, Korea

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Nanomaterials 2019, 9(12), 1692; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9121692

Received: 9 November 2019 / Revised: 22 November 2019 / Accepted: 22 November 2019 / Published: 26 November 2019

(This article belongs to the Section Synthesis, Interfaces and Nanostructures)

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Green synthesis of ZnO nanoparticles has attracted research attention as a sustainable method of avoiding the destructive effect of chemicals. We synthesized a flower-shaped zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoflower (NF) from sea buckthorn fruit (SBT) by co-precipitation and characterized it using X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), X-ray photo electronic microscopy (XPS), photoluminescence (PL), field emission transmission electron microscopy (FE-TEM), and Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy. The ability of the ZnO/NF to degrade cationic and anionic dyes, including malachite green (MG), Congo red (CR), methylene blue (MB), and eosin Y (EY), under ultraviolet illumination was studied. The photocatalyst degraded approximately 99% of the MG, MB, CR and EY dyes within 70, 70, 80, and 90 min of contact time, respectively, at a dye concentration of 15 mg/L, 5 mg/L, SBT-ZnO/NF degraded 100% of the MG, MB, CR and EY dyes within 23, 25, 28, and 30 min, respectively. The results indicate that SBT-ZnO/NFs as synthesized is an inexpensive, non-toxic, rapid, and reusable photocatalyst that can play an enhanced role in wastewater treatment. View Full-Text

Keywords: sea buckthorn fruit; zinc oxide nanoflower; dye degradation; photocatalysis; UV illumination; Congo red; malachite green; eosin Y; methylene blue

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Rupa, E.J.; Kaliraj, L.; Abid, S.; Yang, D.-C.; Jung, S.-K. Synthesis of a Zinc Oxide Nanoflower Photocatalyst from Sea Buckthorn Fruit for Degradation of Industrial Dyes in Wastewater Treatment. Nanomaterials 2019, 9, 1692. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9121692

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Rupa EJ, Kaliraj L, Abid S, Yang D-C, Jung S-K. Synthesis of a Zinc Oxide Nanoflower Photocatalyst from Sea Buckthorn Fruit for Degradation of Industrial Dyes in Wastewater Treatment. Nanomaterials. 2019; 9(12):1692. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9121692

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Rupa, Esrat J., Lalitha Kaliraj, Suleman Abid, Deok-Chun Yang, and Seok-Kyu Jung. 2019. "Synthesis of a Zinc Oxide Nanoflower Photocatalyst from Sea Buckthorn Fruit for Degradation of Industrial Dyes in Wastewater Treatment" Nanomaterials 9, no. 12: 1692. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9121692

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