TY - JOUR ID - 128669 TI - Plant Mediated Synthesis of CdS Nanoparticles, their characterization and application for photocatalytic degradation of toxic organic dye JO - Chemical Review and Letters JA - CRL LA - en SN - 2676-7279 AU - Ullah, Amir AU - Rasheed, Sufian AU - Ali, Irfan AU - Ullah, Niamat AD - Department of Chemistry, Hazara University Mansehra 21120, KPK, Pakistan AD - HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan AD - Department of Chemistry, Government Post Graduate College Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Y1 - 2021 PY - 2021 VL - 4 IS - 2 SP - 98 EP - 107 KW - Cadmium sulfide nanoparticles KW - Characterization KW - Dicliptera roxburghiana KW - Green synthesis of nanomaterials KW - plant extract KW - Photodegradation DO - 10.22034/crl.2021.262754.1097 N2 - In this work, environmentally friendly and cheap method for the synthesis of CdS nanoparticles for the first time using extract of Dicliptera Roxburghiana is presented. The present method is found to be reproducible and rapid. Structural analysis is carried out by UV-visible, FTIR, XRD, EDX, SEM, and TEM. XRD and TEM analysis revealed that the nanoparticles have spherical shape and size in the range of 2.5-8nm. FTIR studies showed the presence of functional groups which belong to the phytochemicals of plant extract that surrounds the nanoparticle preventing them from agglomeration. Thus the prepared CdS NPs exhibit excellent stability even after 2 months. The optical band gap was calculated using Tauc Plot i.e. 3.31 eV. Their activity as photocatalysts against an aqueous solution of methylene blue degradation under solar irradiation in a comparative manner is also reported and the particle has a % degradation of 87.12% in just 120 minutes under solar light irradiation. UR - https://www.chemrevlett.com/article_128669.html L1 - https://www.chemrevlett.com/article_128669_5da656033d1de9c9333241a2d097acf0.pdf ER -