PMID- 30797005 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190903 LR - 20190903 IS - 1879-0003 (Electronic) IS - 0141-8130 (Linking) VI - 130 DP - 2019 Jun 1 TI - A facile synthesis of CuAg nanoparticles on highly porous ZnO/carbon black-cellulose acetate sheets for nitroarene and azo dyes reduction/degradation. PG - 288-299 LID - S0141-8130(19)30620-8 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2019.02.114 [doi] AB - A facile and highly porous heterostructure nanocomposite was designed for the support of zero-valent metal nanoparticles. This nanocomposite comprising of ZnO/carbon black (ZnO/CB) embedded in cellulose acetate polymer (CA), named as ZCA sheet, supported the metallic Cu, Ag and bimetallic CuAg nanoparticles (NPs). The ZnO/CB was incorporated to CA polymer host molecule in 3, 4 and 5 wt% and are designated as ZCA-3, ZCA-4 and ZCA-5. The catalytic tunability was evaluated for CuAg/ZCA-5 by adjusting the concentration of Cu and Ag ions in different molar ratio. Therefore, the CuAg/ZCA-5 was further selected for the removal of eight model pollutants comprising of o-nitrophenol (ONP), m-nitrophenol (MNP), p-nitrophenol (PNP), 2,6-dinitrophenol (DNP), methyl orange (MO), congo red (CR), methylene blue (MB) and rhodamine B (RB). The K(app) value for PNP was 1.9 x 10(-1) min(-1) and 9.0 x 10(-2) min(-1) for MO(.) Among the various nitrophenols, the rate of reaction with CuAg/ZCA-5 followed the ordered as PNP > ONP > MNP > DNP, while methyl orange (MO) is degraded faster as compared to other dyes. The morphology, shape, elemental analysis, functional groups and peak crystallinity were scrutinized through FESEM, EDS, ATR-FTIR and XRD respectively. CI - Copyright (c) 2019. Published by Elsevier B.V. FAU - Khan, Shahid Ali AU - Khan SA AD - Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research (CEAMR), King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia; Department of Chemistry, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia; Department of Chemistry, University of Swabi, Anbar 23561, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Electronic address: skhan@uoswabi.edu.pk. FAU - Khan, Sher Bahadar AU - Khan SB AD - Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research (CEAMR), King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia; Department of Chemistry, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia. Electronic address: sbkhan@kau.edu.sa. FAU - Farooq, Aliya AU - Farooq A AD - Department of Chemistry, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University, Pakistan. FAU - Asiri, Abdullah M AU - Asiri AM AD - Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research (CEAMR), King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia; Department of Chemistry, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20190220 PL - Netherlands TA - Int J Biol Macromol JT - International journal of biological macromolecules JID - 7909578 RN - 0 (Azo Compounds) RN - 0 (Environmental Pollutants) RN - 0 (Nitrophenols) RN - 0 (Soot) RN - 3J2P07GVB6 (acetylcellulose) RN - 3M4G523W1G (Silver) RN - 789U1901C5 (Copper) RN - 9004-34-6 (Cellulose) RN - SOI2LOH54Z (Zinc Oxide) SB - IM MH - Adsorption MH - Azo Compounds/*chemistry/isolation & purification MH - Catalysis MH - Cellulose/*analogs & derivatives/chemistry MH - Chemistry Techniques, Synthetic MH - Copper/chemistry MH - Environmental Pollutants/chemistry/isolation & purification MH - Metal Nanoparticles/*chemistry MH - Nanoparticles/*chemistry MH - Nanotechnology MH - Nitrophenols/*chemistry/isolation & purification MH - Oxidation-Reduction MH - Porosity MH - Silver/chemistry MH - Soot/*chemistry MH - Zinc Oxide/*chemistry OTO - NOTNLM OT - Cellulose acetate OT - CuAg nanoparticles OT - Degradation EDAT- 2019/02/24 06:00 MHDA- 2019/09/04 06:00 CRDT- 2019/02/24 06:00 PHST- 2019/01/24 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/02/19 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/02/24 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/09/04 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2019/02/24 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0141-8130(19)30620-8 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2019.02.114 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Int J Biol Macromol. 2019 Jun 1;130:288-299. doi: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2019.02.114. Epub 2019 Feb 20.