Photocatalytic degradation of Rhodamine B (RhB) dye in waste water and enzymatic inhibition study using cauliflower shaped ZnO nanoparticles synthesized by a novel One-pot green synthesis method

Shashanka Rajendrachari, Parham Taslimi, Abdullah Cahit Karaoglanli, Orhan Uzun, Emre Alp, Gururaj Kudur Jayaprakash
2021 Arabian Journal of Chemistry  
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). important metabolic enzymes like butyrylcholinesterase(BChE), acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and a-glycosidase (a-Gly) enzymes. The bandgap of ZnO NPs was also studied by UV-Vis spectroscopy via Tauc's method and it was determined to be 3.27 eV. The photocatalytic property of the ZnO NPs was executed against rhodamine B (RhB) under the illumination of an AM 1.5 solar simulator. Ó 2021
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doi:10.1016/j.arabjc.2021.103180 fatcat:ixhbtk3tmvfyrh7pbsyjv22uzq