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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mal, Dadu
• Alveroglu, Esra
• Balouch, Aamna
• Jagirani, Muhammad Saqaf
• Abdullah
• Kumar, Sagar

Titel

Highly efficient and selective heterogeneous catalytic reduction of 2-nitroaniline by cerium oxide nanocatalyst under microwave irradiation

Ist Teil von

• Environmental technology, 2022-10, Vol.43 (23), p.3631-3645

Ort / Verlag

England: Taylor & Francis

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Efficient nanocatalyst with incredible performance is highly demanding in a heterogeneous catalysis system. Herein, we report the facile fabrication of uniform and highly stable Cerium Oxide nanoparticles (CeO 2 NPs), through chemical precipitation method using sodium hydroxide as reducing agent. The synthesized material is characterized through highly sophisticated techniques including UV-Visible, FT-IR, SEM, AFM, XRD, and Zeta Sizer- Potential to check the particle formation, surface morphology, topography, crystalline nature, size, and surface potential. The heterogeneous catalytic performance of CeO 2 NPs has been accomplished for the reduction of 2-nitroaniline from the aqueous media. The CeO 2 nanocatalyst displayed excellent reusability, while the reduction in several repetitive catalytic cycles against 2-nitroaniline under optimized conditions. The CeO 2 nanocatalyst shows 99.12% efficiency within 60s reaction time under a greener source of microwave radiation.