Fabrication of Zinc incorporated Magnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Photocatalytic Degradation of Methylene Blue

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

• Nleonu Chile Emmanuel ^{1, 2}
• Okeke Pamela Ifeoma ³
• Christopher Chijioke Onyemenonu ⁴
• Umar Ibrahim Gaya ⁵
• Muhammad Altaf Nazir ⁶
• Syed Shoaib Ahmad Shah ⁷

¹ Department of Chemistry, Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Owerri, Imo State, NIGERIA.

² Materials and Electrochemical Research Unit (MERU), Department of Chemistry, Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Owerri, Imo State, NIGERIA

³ Department of Basic Sciences, Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education, Owerri, Imo State, NIGERIA

⁴ Department of Chemistry, Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Owerri, Imo State, NIGERIA

⁵ Department of Pure and Industrial Chemistry, Bayero University Kano, Kano State, NIGERIA

⁶ Institute of Chemistry, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, PAKISTAN

⁷ Key Laboratory of Luminescence Analysis and Molecular Sensing, Ministry of Education, School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, Chongqing, P.R. CHINA

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Keywords

• Photocatalysis
• Computational modeling
• Metal oxide
• Metal dopant
• Methylene blue

Main Subjects

• Catalysts, Kinetics, Reactor
• ElectroChemistry
• Environmental Chemistry
• Water & Wastewater Treatment