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Auto-combustion Fabrication and Optical Properties of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles for Degradation of Reactive Red 195 and Methyl Orange Dyes

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A new preparation method has been successfully utilized for the fabrication of zinc oxide nanoparticles using the auto-combustion technique and fuels (tartaric acid: TA, citric acid: CA and a mix between them) with molar ratio (Zn:TA; Zn:CA and Zn:CA:CA = 1:1:0, 1:0:0.55 and 1:0.5:0.275). The as-fabricated zinc oxide powder (ZTA, ZCA and ZCTA samples) annealed at 500 °C. The annealed zinc oxide powder was tested by different techniques like DRS, UV–Vis, FT-IR, HR-TEM and XRD. The Crystallite size of the annealed zinc oxide was estimated to be 24, 39 and 26 nm for ZTA, ZCA and ZCTA samples, respectively. The direct band gap, lattice parameters, unit cell volume (V), the dislocation density (D) and the Zn–O bond length (L) of the prepared zinc oxide powder (ZTA, ZCA and ZCTA samples) were determined. The synthesized zinc oxide nanoparticles are used as nanocatalyst for photodegradation of reactive red 195 and methyl orange as anionic dyes utilizing UV light irradiation. The degradation of reactive red 195 dye was 91–94% after 70 min over the synthesized zinc oxide and the values of degradation increased to be 99–99.8% in 50 min with H2O2 under UV light irradiation. Also, the degradation of methyl orange dye was 57.55–70.57% after 300 min over the synthesized zinc oxide (ZTA, ZCA and ZCTA samples) and the values of degradation increased to be 81–95% in 70 min with H2O2 under UV light irradiation. Finally, the appeared rate constant (Kapp) is determined and the mechanism of the photocatalysis process is suggested for the degradation of the dyes over the synthesized zinc oxide nanoparticles.

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Ali, A.A., Ahmed, I.S., Amin, A.S. et al. Auto-combustion Fabrication and Optical Properties of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles for Degradation of Reactive Red 195 and Methyl Orange Dyes. J Inorg Organomet Polym 31, 3780–3792 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10904-021-01975-6

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