The significant rise of ultra-violet(UV) radiation and pathogenic infectious bacteria poses a serious threat to global *** researchers' interests are attracted by novel materials with strong UVblocking ability,antib...
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The significant rise of ultra-violet(UV) radiation and pathogenic infectious bacteria poses a serious threat to global *** researchers' interests are attracted by novel materials with strong UVblocking ability,antibacterial activity and low toxicity to other *** this case,a simple wet chemical method with different annealing temperatures(400,500,and 600℃) was employed to create highly effective rare earth(sm)-doped ZnO ***(101) plane of wurtzite ZnO shifts towards a lower angle with increasing annealing temperature,according to the X-ray diffraction(XRD) study findings,which additionally establishes the consequence of lattice *** of doublet peaks of sm 3d(sm 3d5/2and sm 3d3/2) in the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy(XPs) spectrum clearly validates the substitution of sm3+ions in the 500℃-annealed *** 500℃-annealed nanorods exhibit combined performances of the wide band gap,improved UV absorbance,and vivid green luminescent emission(563 nm).Additio nally,the nanorods have favorable UV-blocking execution of 96% for UVA at 360 nm,92% for UVB at 320 nm,and 57% for UVC at 225 nm,which is greater than the majority of ZnO-related materials that have been reported up to this *** doping is also appropriate for improving bacterial inhibition against the two studied strains(Escherichia coli and staphylococcus aureus),in addition to the intriguing features discussed ***,with maximum inhibition zone diameters of 20±0.72 and 18±0.57 mm,respectively,these nanorods exhibit high inhibitory action against *** and *** bacterial *** rare earth-doped material developed during the current experiment,which was annealed at 500℃,could potentially serve as an effective replacement for UV-blocking and antibacterial material,especially for biomedical applications.
In this manuscript,we report the hydrothermally prepared rGO/Gd@ZnO nanocomposite for the utilization of photocatalytic Rh B(rhodamine B)dye *** required characterization techniques were carried out to analyse the str...
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In this manuscript,we report the hydrothermally prepared rGO/Gd@ZnO nanocomposite for the utilization of photocatalytic Rh B(rhodamine B)dye *** required characterization techniques were carried out to analyse the structural,morphological,chemical,environmental and optical behaviour of the prepared *** efficiency of the prepared nanoparticles was studied by Rh B dye degradation upon UV-Vis-light illumination which reveals that composite catalyst degrades the dye molecule about 91%after 40 min of *** comparing the higher degradation efficiency of the rGO/Gd@ZnO nanocomposite with that of ZnO and Gd doped ZnO,it reveals a greater reduction of charge carriers'recombination,higher visible-light utilization and higher adsorption *** trapping experiment and recycling test were conducted to study the influence of active radicals for the degradation reaction and to know the stability of the prepared nanocomposite,***,this rGO supported Gd doped ZnO nanocomposite can provide a new path way in preparing a highly efficient photocatalyst for organic pollutant degradation at large.
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