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Methylene blue degradation using highly electro catalytic silver nanoparticles

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Neha, Manvender Singh, Vikas Dhull
» doi: 10.31838/ecb/2023.12.1.027

Abstract

In this study, silver nanoparticles were used to remove methylene blue dye in aqueous solution. The silver nanoparticles subjected to UV-Visible spectroscopy, Particle Size Analysis, Zeta Potential and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy. The absorbance peak obtained around 420 nm, which showed that the samples are active and contain silver nanoparticles. The sample is in nano range with 47 nm of the average particle size as confirmed by size distribution analysis using PSA. The dispersion, colloidal properties and stability of nanoparticle confirmed by zeta potential. The value of zeta potential was highly negative which proved that the silver nanoparticles are stable and used in further experiment. The FTIR analysis also showed the active peaks, which proves active bonds present in the sample and can be used for decolorization of methylene blue dye by interacting with it. The nanoparticles successfully adsorbed methylene blue dye at 3 mg/L concentration with 6 hrs of incubation time.

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