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MATERIALS CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Volume 144, Issue 3, Pages 425-432Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2014.01.015
Keywords
Nanostructures; Adsorption; Chemical synthesis; Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)
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- DST, India [SR/S3/ME/0020/2009-SERC]
- SAP (UGC), India [F.3-30/2009(SAP-II)]
- FIST program (DST), India [SR/FST/CSI-203/209/1]
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An environmentally friendly effective technique was demonstrated to prepare iron oxide/reduced graphene oxide nanohybrid (IO/RGO) at room temperature by using banana peel ash aqueous extract as the base source and Colocasia esculenta leaves aqueous extract as the reducing agent. The nanohybrid was characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffractometry, transmission electron microscopy, vibrating sample magnetometry, Raman spectroscopy and thermal studies. The results indicated the decoration of superparamagnetic IO nanoparticles on the surface of the RGO. Both organic and inorganic pollutants were effectively removed from the contaminated water (for Pb2+ and Cd2+ within 10 min, whereas for tetrabromobisphenol A within 30 min) by IO/RGO. The study revealed that adsorption followed pseudo-second order kinetics and isotherms were well described by the Langmuir model in all the cases. The thermodynamics parameters (Delta G degrees, Delta S degrees and Delta H degrees) were calculated from the temperature dependent isotherms and indicated that the adsorptions were endothermic and spontaneous. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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