Enhanced catalytic activity without the use of an external light source using microwave-synthesized CuO nanopetals

• Govinda Lakhotiya,
• Sonal Bajaj,
• Arpan Kumar Nayak,
• Debabrata Pradhan,
• Pradip Tekade and
• Abhimanyu Rana

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1167–1173, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.118

• conditions is also illustrated. Keywords: CuO nanopetals; dark catalytic activity; fast degradation of dyes; microwave synthesis; Introduction Controlling air quality and water pollutants is a big challenge for environmental research [1]. Particularly, efforts have been taken to control these pollutants

• intervals and were centrifuged to filter suspended CuO powder. The MB concentration in the filtered suspension was studied with a Perkin Elmer Lambda 750 UV–vis spectrophotometer. The dark catalytic activity of the as-synthesized CuO nanopetals was also checked for the degradation of RhB under the same