Synthesis, Characterization and Photocatalytic Application of

p(AAc) Microgels and its Composites of Ni Doped ZnO

Nanoparticles
Sidra Arshad Mohsin Javed, ,

.
Department of Chemistry, School of Science, University of Management and Technology Lahore Pakistan

Abstract :

ZnO nanoparticles and Ni doped ZnO nanoparticles with different concentration of (Zn 1-xNixO) (X = 0, 9, 25, 33,
41 ) wt% were prepared by co-precipitation method and Poly Acrylic Acid microgel and its (composite with good
degradation) by varying percentage of Ni doped ZnO were synthesize by reverse phase polymerization these are
characterized by XRD, FTIR, TEM, SEM, SPS to find out its morphology. Photocatalytic activity of these samples
were testified by photo degradation of Methylene blue as standard dye. The results reveled that synthesize composite
.

material show much enhance photocatalytic activity.

Introduction
Microgel are highly swollen milky white suspended particles highly Responsive in nature which are
cross linked three dimensional polymeric network which swells in response of stimuli such as
temperature and pH. Doped zinc oxide nanoparticles that shows us a unique optical, magnetic and
catalytic properties depending upon nature (size, shape) of inorganic nanoparticles. Metal loaded nano
composites use in many fields such as drug delivery, photocatalytic activity chemical separation, oil
recovery, and Nano technology.
Material and chemicals:
Three neck flask, Beakers, N2 gas cylinder, stirrer, pipes, nickel nitrate, zinc acetate,,
, PVA, NaOH, TEMED, APS, MBA, AAc,
Spectrophotometer. Methylene blue , distilled water

Study photo catalytic

activity by UV-
spectrophotometer
P(AAc)
microgels Nano
composite
Nano particles
NaOH separated

Ni(N03)2 . 2H20 PVA

Zinc acetate
concentration
1400%
350% 1200%
0.03g of 9%
300%
250%
Concentration 1000%
200% 800%
150% 4.5
100% 600%
50% 400% 4
0%
Wave
-50% Length 771 741 711 681 651 621 591 561 531 501 471 441 411 381 351 321 291 261 231 201 200%
3.5
0%

Result and discussion

Wavelength720 639 558 477 396 315 234
-200% 3

2.5

1.5
Study of Photodegradation of different concentration by UV spectrophotometer after 30 min. 1
Study
0.5
of Photodegradation by UV
Study of Photodegradation of different concentration
by UV spectrophotometer after 60 min
spectrophotometer
0
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-0.5

Conclusion Study of degradation by the help of UV spectrophotometer shows Photocatalytic activity

increases by increasing concentration of nanoparticles .

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