Investigation of Catalytic Property of Plant Mediated Silver Nanoparticles as Degradation of Toxic Dyes in Water

Abstract

Nowadays, silver nano-compounds mediated by plant materials are widely used material in daily life chemistry as well as across the industries, medical, electronics, ceramics, and in all research fields, because it has some specific characteristics such as non-toxic, inexpensive, nature-friendly, heat resistant, catalytic activity, high electric conductivity and so on. In the present work we reported the photo-catalytic dye degradation of green synthesized silver nanoparticles of size 43.75 nm by using the flowers extract of Rhododendron campanulatum tree. Synthesized AgNPs have worked as a strong nano-catalyst for the degradation of toxic dyes such as malachite green (MG), and acridine orange (AO). As a catalyst, synthesized AgNPs degraded the malachite green (MG) dye 47.22 % within 90 min, and acridine orange (AO) dye 66.16 % in 4 h of solar irradiation, while in the absence of nanocatalyst, MG and AO dye degraded upto 22.13 % in 90 min and 46.75 % in 4 h of photo-irradiation respectively. Synthesized nano material (AgNPs) may be applicable as a strong catalytic agent for the degradation of toxic dyes, water purifying agent as well as a good antioxidant agent.