https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04601-1
Regular Article
Photocatalytic degradation of rhodamine B and methylene blue using novel Spinacia oleracea-based Ag nanoparticles: experimental and theoretical analysis
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Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, 11451, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Gujrat, Hafiz Hayat Campus, 50700, Gujrat, Pakistan
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Department of Physics, Queen’s University Belfast, BT7 1NN, Belfast, UK
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Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of Gujrat, Hafiz Hayat Campus, 50700, Gujrat, Pakistan
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Department of Chemistry, AN-Najah National University, P.O. Box 7, Nablus, Palestine
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tahir.awan@uog.edu.pk
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hira.naseer345@gmail.com
Received:
14
July
2023
Accepted:
15
October
2023
Published online:
29
October
2023
Eco-friendly synthesis of metallic nanostructures engrossed significant attention around the globe due to novelty in their physical characteristics. In this study, Spinacia oleracea extract was utilized as biogenic entity to synthesize silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs). A range of analytical techniques such as scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray, X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and UV–visible spectroscopy has been employed to characterize the synthesized Ag-NPs. In addition, the photocatalytic removal of rhodamine B (RhB) and methylene blue (MB) was also investigated for synthesized nanomaterials. It is observed that RhB and MB degraded 84% and 86%, respectively. Moreover, Scavenger and reusability experiments conducted to investigate the active radicals in photocatalytic degradation of organic contaminants and photo-stability of synthesized material. On the other hand, the simulation has been carried out employing COMOSL Multiphysics RF module (5.3a) to correlate the experimental photocatalytic results with theoretical which well agreement to each other. This simulation helps us to explore the underlying science for better understanding.
Nabil Al-Zaqri, Arooj Majeed Dar, and Tahir Iqbal have contributed equally to this work.
The original online version of this article was revised: In the Acknowledgements section of this article the grant number relating to King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia given for authors was incorrectly given as “RSP2023R396” and should have been “RSP2024R396”. And in this article the statement in the Funding information section was incorrectly given as “The Funding was provided by Deanship of Scientific Research, King Saud University Grant Number RSP2023R396” and should have read “King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Project number (RSP2024R396)”.
The original article has been corrected.
A correction to this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04701-y.
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