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Heterogeneous kinetics of CuO nanoflakes in simultaneous decolorization of Eosin Y and Rhodamine B in aqueous media

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This study describes the heterogeneous photocatalysis of CuO nanoflakes for the effective degradation of hazardous dyes. The successful synthesis of CuO nanoflakes was carried out by exploiting aqueous chemical growth method. The synthesized material was characterized by versatile analytical tools including XRD, FE-SEM, EDX, AFM, ZP and FT-IR. The engineered CuO reveals nanoflakes texture having average size of 18.3 nm and (− 36.5 ± 3 mV) surface charge with excellent phase purity and crystalline nature. The catalytic kinetics exposed that CuO nanocatalyst exhibits an exceptional degradation over 97% for Eosin Y (EY) and Rhodamine B (RB) dyes in the aqueous medium using minimum catalyst dose of 120 and 140 μg individually and simultaneously, within 3 min of time period under sunlight. Due to ultrafine processing, cost-effective synthetic outline, supreme reduction percentage in short time and intense recyclability with an insignificant decrease in degradation abilities, the proposed nanocatalyst is extremely useful. Consequentially, the nanocatalyst presented here is more useful and realistic, hence can be suggested as an effective candidate for the successful degradation of complex dyes at the commercial level.

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  1. National Centre of Excellence in Analytical Chemistry, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, 76080, Pakistan

    Jamil A. Buledi, Abdul H. Pato, Ali H. Kanhar & Amber R. Solangi

  2. Institute of Chemistry, University of the Punjab, Lahore, 54590, Pakistan

    Madeeha Batool

  3. Department of Chemistry, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University, Shaheed Benazirabad, 67450, Sindh, Pakistan

    Sidra Ameen

  4. Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey

    Ismail M. Palabiyik

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Buledi, J.A., Pato, A.H., Kanhar, A.H. et al. Heterogeneous kinetics of CuO nanoflakes in simultaneous decolorization of Eosin Y and Rhodamine B in aqueous media. Appl Nanosci 11, 1241–1256 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13204-021-01685-y

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