Novel CuO/chitosan nanocomposite thin film: Facile hand-picking recoverable, efficient and reusable heterogeneous photocatalyst

• Main Authors: Kumar, P. Senthil, Selvakumar, M., Babu, Sundaram Ganesh, Jaganathan, Saravana Kumar, Karuthapandian, Swaminathan, Chattopadhyay, Santanu
• Format: Article
• Published: Royal Society of Chemistry 2015
• Subjects: TP Chemical technology
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/58655/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c5ra08783j
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

The present work demonstrates a new simple hand-picking technique for the 100% recovery of a photocatalyst. CuO nanospheres were synthesized by a simple wet chemical method and were subsequently embedded into the biopolymer matrix (chitosan) under mild conditions by the solution cast method and its...