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Micro-Plasma Assisted Synthesis of ZnO Nanosheets for the Efficient Removal of $Cr^{6+}$ from the Aqueous Solution

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Author	Kumar, Pawan Saini, Meenu Singh, Maninder Chhillar, Nidhi Dehiya, Brijnandan S. Kishor, Kamal Alharthi, Fahad A. Al-Zaqri, Nabil Alghamdi, Abdulaziz Ali
Copyright Year	2020
Description	Herein, we report a micro-plasma assisted solvothermal synthesis and characterization of zinc oxide nanosheets (ZnO-NSs) and their application for the removal of Cr6+ ion from aqueous solution. The morphological investigations by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) confirmed the high-density growth of nanosheets with the typical sizes in the range of 145.8–320.25 nm. The typical surface area of the synthesized ZnO-NSs, observed by Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET), was found to be 948 m2/g. The synthesized ZnO-NSs were used as efficient absorbent for the removal of Cr6+ ion from aqueous solution. Various parameters such as pH, contact time, amount of adsorbate and adsorbent on the removal efficiency of Cr6+ ion was optimized and presented in this paper. At optimized conditions, the highest value for removal was 87.1% at pH = 2 while the calculated maximum adsorption capacity was ~87.37 mg/g. The adsorption isotherm data were found to be best fitted to Temkin adsorption isotherm and the adsorption process followed the pseudo-first-order kinetics. Furthermore, the toxicity of ZnO-NSs were also examined against fibroblast cells, which show favorable results and proved that it can be used for wastewater treatment.
Starting Page	2
e-ISSN	20734352
DOI	10.3390/cryst11010002
Journal	Crystals
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	11
Language	English
Publisher	MDPI
Publisher Date	2020-12-22
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Crystals Water Science and Technology Zno Nanosheets Cr(vi) Ion Adsorption Isotherms Fibroblast Cells
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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