An investigation and Environmental Aspects of Copper(II) Surfactant with Photocatalytic Degradation

Abstract

Surfactants have wide use all over the world in various field of the national economy, will continue to expand its scope of application and the consumption is also increasing. Photodegradation is a branch of science, which attracted the attention of science community all over the world due to selection of light as energy source to degrade large molecules to smaller size molecules which does not degrade easily. Copper(II) Soya Thiourea complex has been synthesised and photocatalytic degradation of this complex carried by using ZnO as semiconductor catalyst in non aqueous solvent benzene. Concentration effect on Copper (II) Soya Thiourea complex with reference of optical density, photodegradation and percent degradation has been studied here. Using light as an energy source to drive a reaction results in chemistry is much more ‘green’, helping to eliminate the requirement for harsh reactants which are often toxic and unrecoverable. Photocatalysis also has applications in wide area of renewable energy. Analysis of biological activities of Copper soap complex is also done with Staphylococcus aureus to anticipate that it will generate new hopes in the field of biological applications.