Arachis hypogaea derived activated carbon/Pt catalyst: reduction of organic dyes

S. Anbu Anjugam Vandarkuzhali, S. Karthikeyan, B. Viswanathan, M.p. Pachamuthu

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Abstract

Activated carbon from agro waste groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) shell was prepared by chemical activation and used as support for dispersion of 5% platinum nanoparticles. The Pt nanoparticles were obtained by the reduction in hydrogen gas medium. The synthesized groundnut activated carbon/platinum catalyst was characterized by various techniques such as X-ray powder diffraction, electron microscopies and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The catalytic behaviour of the synthesized catalyst was investigated by exploring it as catalyst for the reduction of various classes of dyes; namely, triphenylmethane dyes such as Malachite green, phenol red and bromophenol blue, xanthene dyes: rose bengal, rhodamine 6G, rhodamine B, thiazine dye: methyelene blue, azo dye: congo red and 4-nitrophenol by sodium borohydride in aqueous medium. Under suitable reaction conditions, for all tested dyes, cationic dyes were reduced at a faster rate than anionic dyes. The rate of reduction on the structure of dye and nature of catalyst was employed.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)101-111
JournalSurfaces and Interfaces
Volume13
Early online date31 Jul 2018
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2018

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