Designing Novel Strategy to Produce Active Nanohybrids in Sunlight for Purification of Water Based on Inorganic Nanolayers, Magnetic Nanocomposites and Organic Species
Energy and water related problems have attracted strong attention from scientists across the world because of deficient energy and water pollution. Following this line, new strategy depended on preparing nanolayers of Al/Zn and magnetic nanoparticles of cobalt iron oxides nanocomposite in addition t...
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| author | Osama Saber Mostafa Osama Nagih M. Shaalan Aya Osama Adil Alshoaibi Doaa Osama |
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| description | Energy and water related problems have attracted strong attention from scientists across the world because of deficient energy and water pollution. Following this line, new strategy depended on preparing nanolayers of Al/Zn and magnetic nanoparticles of cobalt iron oxides nanocomposite in addition to long chains of hydrocarbons of stearic acid to be used as roofs, fillers and pillars; respectively, to design optical-active nanohybrids in sunlight for removing the colored pollutants from water in few minutes. By using long chains of hydrocarbons of stearic acid, X-ray diffraction (XRD) results and TEM images showed expansion of the interlayered spacing from 0.76 nm to 2.02 nm and insertion of magnetic nanoparticles among the nanolayers of Al/Zn. The optical properties and activities showed that the nanohybrid structure based on zinc oxide led to clear reduction of the band gap energy from 3.3 eV to 2.75 eV to be effective in sunlight. Photocatalytic degradation of the dye of acid green 1 confirmed the high activity of the prepared zinc oxide nanohybrids because of a complete removal of the dye after ten minutes in sunlight. Finally, this strategy was effective for producing photo-active nanohybrids for using renewable and non-polluting energy for purifying water. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c04ec89eb20d4273a68b7cd2d4ad19662023-11-23T18:09:18ZengMDPI AGMolecules1420-30492022-06-012712367310.3390/molecules27123673Designing Novel Strategy to Produce Active Nanohybrids in Sunlight for Purification of Water Based on Inorganic Nanolayers, Magnetic Nanocomposites and Organic SpeciesOsama Saber0Mostafa Osama1Nagih M. Shaalan2Aya Osama3Adil Alshoaibi4Doaa Osama5Al Bilad Bank Scholarly Chair for Food Security in Saudi Arabia, The Deanship of Scientific Research, The Vice Presidency for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, King Faisal University, P.O. Box 400, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi ArabiaAl Bilad Bank Scholarly Chair for Food Security in Saudi Arabia, The Deanship of Scientific Research, The Vice Presidency for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, King Faisal University, P.O. Box 400, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi ArabiaAl Bilad Bank Scholarly Chair for Food Security in Saudi Arabia, The Deanship of Scientific Research, The Vice Presidency for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, King Faisal University, P.O. Box 400, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi ArabiaAl Bilad Bank Scholarly Chair for Food Security in Saudi Arabia, The Deanship of Scientific Research, The Vice Presidency for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, King Faisal University, P.O. Box 400, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi ArabiaAl Bilad Bank Scholarly Chair for Food Security in Saudi Arabia, The Deanship of Scientific Research, The Vice Presidency for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, King Faisal University, P.O. Box 400, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi ArabiaAl Bilad Bank Scholarly Chair for Food Security in Saudi Arabia, The Deanship of Scientific Research, The Vice Presidency for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, King Faisal University, P.O. Box 400, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi ArabiaEnergy and water related problems have attracted strong attention from scientists across the world because of deficient energy and water pollution. Following this line, new strategy depended on preparing nanolayers of Al/Zn and magnetic nanoparticles of cobalt iron oxides nanocomposite in addition to long chains of hydrocarbons of stearic acid to be used as roofs, fillers and pillars; respectively, to design optical-active nanohybrids in sunlight for removing the colored pollutants from water in few minutes. By using long chains of hydrocarbons of stearic acid, X-ray diffraction (XRD) results and TEM images showed expansion of the interlayered spacing from 0.76 nm to 2.02 nm and insertion of magnetic nanoparticles among the nanolayers of Al/Zn. The optical properties and activities showed that the nanohybrid structure based on zinc oxide led to clear reduction of the band gap energy from 3.3 eV to 2.75 eV to be effective in sunlight. Photocatalytic degradation of the dye of acid green 1 confirmed the high activity of the prepared zinc oxide nanohybrids because of a complete removal of the dye after ten minutes in sunlight. Finally, this strategy was effective for producing photo-active nanohybrids for using renewable and non-polluting energy for purifying water.https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/27/12/3673optical active nanohybridsphotocatalytic degradation of dyes in sunlightmagnetic-nonmagnetic nanohybridsnanolayers and nanocomposites |
| spellingShingle | Osama Saber Mostafa Osama Nagih M. Shaalan Aya Osama Adil Alshoaibi Doaa Osama Designing Novel Strategy to Produce Active Nanohybrids in Sunlight for Purification of Water Based on Inorganic Nanolayers, Magnetic Nanocomposites and Organic Species Molecules optical active nanohybrids photocatalytic degradation of dyes in sunlight magnetic-nonmagnetic nanohybrids nanolayers and nanocomposites |
| title | Designing Novel Strategy to Produce Active Nanohybrids in Sunlight for Purification of Water Based on Inorganic Nanolayers, Magnetic Nanocomposites and Organic Species |
| title_full | Designing Novel Strategy to Produce Active Nanohybrids in Sunlight for Purification of Water Based on Inorganic Nanolayers, Magnetic Nanocomposites and Organic Species |
| title_fullStr | Designing Novel Strategy to Produce Active Nanohybrids in Sunlight for Purification of Water Based on Inorganic Nanolayers, Magnetic Nanocomposites and Organic Species |
| title_full_unstemmed | Designing Novel Strategy to Produce Active Nanohybrids in Sunlight for Purification of Water Based on Inorganic Nanolayers, Magnetic Nanocomposites and Organic Species |
| title_short | Designing Novel Strategy to Produce Active Nanohybrids in Sunlight for Purification of Water Based on Inorganic Nanolayers, Magnetic Nanocomposites and Organic Species |
| title_sort | designing novel strategy to produce active nanohybrids in sunlight for purification of water based on inorganic nanolayers magnetic nanocomposites and organic species |
| topic | optical active nanohybrids photocatalytic degradation of dyes in sunlight magnetic-nonmagnetic nanohybrids nanolayers and nanocomposites |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/27/12/3673 |
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