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Cost effective biosynthetic approach for graphene exhibiting superior sonochemical dye removal capacity

  • Carbon Letters
  • Abbr : Carbon Lett.
  • 2021, 31(6), pp.1215-1225
  • DOI : 10.1007/s42823-021-00245-2
  • Publisher : Korean Carbon Society
  • Research Area : Natural Science > Natural Science General > Other Natural Sciences General
  • Received : October 19, 2020
  • Accepted : March 22, 2021
  • Published : December 1, 2021

Akhil Syed 1 Saeed Al Musawi Mahdi Jawad 1 Majety Syam Sundar 1 Mullamuri Bhanu 1 Majji Ganesh 1 Bharatiya Debasrita 1 Mosali Venkata Sai Sriram 1 Bollikolla Hari Babu 1 Chandu Basavaiah 1

1Acharya Nagarjuna University

Accredited

ABSTRACT

Green synthesis of graphene using leaf extracts as sustainable reducing and capping agents is a thrust area of research owing to its simplicity, eco-friendly nature and the ease of access to graphene. Moringa (Moringa oleifera Lam) plant is widely cultivated in India owing to its important medicinal and nutritional values. Inspired by these reports, herein we report a simple, green and economic synthesis of graphene, Moringa leaf extract employed reduced graphene oxide (MRGO) with excellent dye removal efciencies. The MRGO is prepared by refuxing a mixture of aqueous dispersion of graphene oxide and Moringa leaf extract for 10 h. Further, we elucidated the role of synthesized MRGO in the removal of methylene blue (MB) and rhodamine B (RB) dyes through the sonochemical method. This as-synthesized material exhibited excellent dye removal efciencies of about 93% and 87% against MB and RB dyes, respectively. Graphene with huge surface area expedited the better adsorption of dye molecules, thus, facilitated the better removal of the latter. Therefore, the superior dye removal efciencies of MRGO were attributed to its adsorption capacity. This cost-efective synthetic approach of MRGO nanomaterial has a great potential for the innovative applications in water purifcation technology and fnd its place in further industrialization.

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