Abstract
The present work reports the removal of heavy metal ion, Pb2+ by adsorption on Copper Ferrite nanoparticles synthesised by the green method. The green method is a low cost, a non-toxic and environmentally friendly method using plant parts. In this work, we use phytochemicals from Simarouba glauca leaf extract as the reducing and capping agent. The product obtained was characterised by XRD, FT-IR, UV, XPS, SEM and TEM. The results revealed a sphere-like morphology for the synthesised nano copper ferrite with an average particle size 9 nm. Batch adsorption experiment shows that it is a good adsorbent for removing Pb (II) ions from aqueous solutions. Adsorbent could be easily separated from the reaction mixture and reused several times.
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