Biogenic Carbon Dots for Potential Use in Dye Reduction "a Greener Way of Environmental Remediation"

EasyChair Preprint 2833

Abstract

A greener and environmentally sustainable way for water remediation is reported here, which utilizes nanomaterials prepared from waste materials "the orange peel".  The synthesis of water soluble and fluorescent C-dots, a new promising class of biocompatible and multicolor luminescent nanoparticles, from waste such as orange peels through low temperature microwave process has been reported. The prepared C-dots are of 5 nm and they show strong fluorescence. The synthesized C-dots have been characterized by using DLS, UV-Visible, FT-IR, XRD, Fluorescence measurement techniques. The synthesized C-dots are found to be effective catalyst for the reduction of Eosin Y and Methylene Blue with NaBH₄ as the reducing agent. A detail pathway for step by step reduction, oxidation of dyes was established by UV-Vis spectroscopy.

Keyphrases: Biogenic, Dye reduction, Nanomaterials, Water remediation, fluorescence

@booklet{EasyChair:2833,
  author    = {Alishmita Barman and Dipshika Deka and Hiranya Kumar Choudhury and Tuhin Bhattacharjee and Mirjufa Islam and Parlie Dutta and Devasish Chowdhury and Gitanjali Majumdar},
  title     = {Biogenic Carbon Dots for Potential Use in Dye Reduction "a Greener Way of Environmental Remediation"},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 2833},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2020}}