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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE
Volume 1134, Issue -, Pages 121-125Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2016.12.069
Keywords
Zinc Oxide; Methylene blue degradation; Camellia sinensis; Green synthesis
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- Universidad Autonoma de Baja California through the 492 project
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This work addresses low cost, non-toxic green synthesis of Zinc Oxide nanoparticles prepared using different amounts of Camellia sinensis extract. The Synthesized material was studied and characterized through Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FUR), x-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The Zinc Oxide nanoparticles presented the desired Zn-O bond at 618 cm(-1), demonstrated growth in a purely hexagonal Wurtzite crystal structure, and, depending on the amount of extract used, they presented different size and shape homogeneity. The photocatalytic activity of the obtained Zinc Oxide nanoparticles was studied. The photocatalytic degradation studies were done at a 1:1 M ratio of methylene blue to Zinc Oxide nanoparticles under UV light. The obtained results presented a better degradation rate than commercially available Zinc Oxide nanoparticles.
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