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Facile synthesis of porous anionic hydrogel embedded with nickel nanoparticles and evaluation of its catalytic performance for the rapid reduction of 4-nitrophenol

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Anionic hydrogel was prepared by free radical copolymerization of acrylamide and acrylic acid. The anionic groups acted as adsorption sites to load Ni(II) ions and the subsequent reduction of loaded Ni(II) ions into nanoparticles enabled the prepared hydrogels to act template for the preparation of nanostructured Ni particles. The characteristics of the prepared hydrogel and hydrogel–nickel nanoparticle composite were studied with Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, thermal gravimetric analysis, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction technique. Swelling behaviour of hydrogel in aqueous medium was analysed by gravimetric analysis. Catalytic performance of the prepared poly(acrylamide-co-acrylic acid)–nickel nanoparticle hydrogel composite was investigated in the reduction of 4-nitrophenol (4-NP). Effects of temperature and catalyst dose on the reduction rate were also studied. Activation energy (Ea) for the reduction of 4-NP was found to be 43.46 kJ/mol. A maximum reduction rate of 0.40 min−1 was observed at room temperature.

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The Research Fund provided by the Quaid-i-Azam University (URF-2016) is highly acknowledged. We also wish to acknowledge the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan for funding under the Research Project No. 20-1468.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, University of Wah, Quaid Avenue, Wah Cantt., Rawalpindi, 47040, Pakistan

    Muhammad Ajmal

  2. Department of Chemistry, Hazara University, Garden Campus, Mansehra, NWFP, Pakistan

    Faiza Aftab & Iram Bibi

  3. National Centre for Nanoscience and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    Muzaffar Iqbal

  4. Department of Physics, Comsats Institute of Information Technology, Chak Shahzad, Park Road, Islamabad, 45550, Pakistan

    Jaweria Ambreen

  5. Institute of Chemical Science, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, 60800, Pakistan

    Hafiz Badaruddin Ahmad & Naeem Akhtar

  6. CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, Anhui, China

    Abdul Haleem

  7. Department of Chemistry, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, 45320, Pakistan

    Muhammad Siddiq

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Ajmal, M., Aftab, F., Bibi, I. et al. Facile synthesis of porous anionic hydrogel embedded with nickel nanoparticles and evaluation of its catalytic performance for the rapid reduction of 4-nitrophenol. J Porous Mater 26, 281–290 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10934-018-0654-8

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