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One-Pot Green Synthesis of AgNPs@RGO for Removal of Water Pollutant and Chemical Fixation of CO2 Under Mild Reaction Conditions

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Silver nanoparticles with large surface area and surface available atoms provide promising opportunities to deal with the challenges in catalysis and environmental remediation. Herein, silver nanoparticles impregnated reduced graphene oxide (AgNPs@RGO) is synthesized through the in-situ reduction process using green guava fruit extract as a reducing agent. The synthesized materials are characterized by multiple characterization tools such as FTIR, XRD, UV–Vis, XPS, Raman, FESEM and TEM studies. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic (XPS) result has confirmed the in-situ reduction of GO and Ag+ ions to RGO and Ago, respectively. Morphological studies like FESEM and TEM have suggested well dispersion of AgNPs onto the RGO sheets. The synthesized material showed improved efficiency for the catalytic reduction of water-pollutant like p-nitrophenol. Here, the catalyst works as a hydrogen transport. The AgNPs@RGO material also showed efficient catalytic activity for terminal alkyne carboxylation up to 98.5% of product yield. The catalyst is reusable for multiple reaction cycles for both the studied reactions.

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SMI is thankful to the Department of Science and Technology, (DST-SERB project reference no. EMR/2016/004956), New Delhi, Govt. of India, the Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences Government of India, (BRNS project reference no. (37(2)/14/03/2018- BRNS/37003) and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, (CSIR project reference no. 02(0284)2016/EMR-II dated 06/12/2016) New Delhi, Govt. of India, for providing financial support. AHC acknowledges to University of Kalyani, India for providing her URS fellowship. I.H.C. is thankful to CSIR, India (09/106 (0181) 2019 EMR-I) for her fellowship.

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Hazra Chowdhury, A., Hazra Chowdhury, I. & Islam, S.M. One-Pot Green Synthesis of AgNPs@RGO for Removal of Water Pollutant and Chemical Fixation of CO2 Under Mild Reaction Conditions. J Inorg Organomet Polym 30, 5270–5282 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10904-020-01643-1

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