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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 10, Issue 13, Pages 7898-7911Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d0ra00163e
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- Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University [RG-1438-006]
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The green mechanism for the synthesis of nanoparticles and their application to the wastewater treatment is of inordinate curiosity to the research community. Herein we outline a novel method for the synthesis of silver nanoparticles via a green route using alginate-guar gum blend (GG-Alg@Ag) and their application to degrade methylene blue (MB) dye. The synthesized material was characterized by FTIR, XRD, SEM-EDX, TEM, TGA-DTG, AFM, and UV-vis techniques. A combination of RSM and CCD was employed to compute the system and optimized values of various interacting parameters such as exposure time (120 min), pH (4.98), dye concentration (194 mg L-1), and catalyst dose (0.07 g) with a photodegradation capacity of 92.33% and desirability 1.0. The mechanism of degradation reaction was best elucidated by the pseudo-second-order model suggesting chemical deposition of MB on the GG-Alg@Ag surface through followed by the reduction mechanism in the occupancy of visible light. The optical studies indicated a value of 2.5 eV by Tauc's plot for bandgap energy (E-g) for GG-Alg@Ag bionanocomposite.
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