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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles for Water Purification.

Angela Spoială, Cornelia-Ioana Ilie, Roxana-Doina Trușcă, Ovidiu-Cristian Oprea, Vasile-Adrian Surdu, Bogdan Ștefan Vasile, Anton Ficai, Denisa Ficai, Ecaterina Andronescu, Lia-Mara Dițu

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Angela SpoialăDepartment of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 1-7 Gh Polizu Street, 011061 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0000-0001-8362-8845
Cornelia-Ioana IlieDepartment of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 1-7 Gh Polizu Street, 011061 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-5504-5156
Roxana-Doina TrușcăNational Centre for Micro and Nanomaterials and National Centre for Food Safety, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Spl. Indendentei 313, 060042 Bucharest, Romania.
Ovidiu-Cristian OpreaNational Centre for Micro and Nanomaterials and National Centre for Food Safety, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Spl. Indendentei 313, 060042 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-8145-1094
Vasile-Adrian SurduDepartment of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 1-7 Gh Polizu Street, 011061 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-4207-5380
Bogdan Ștefan VasileDepartment of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 1-7 Gh Polizu Street, 011061 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-2267-6453
Anton FicaiDepartment of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 1-7 Gh Polizu Street, 011061 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-1777-0525
Denisa FicaiNational Centre for Micro and Nanomaterials and National Centre for Food Safety, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Spl. Indendentei 313, 060042 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0000-0003-1243-6904
Ecaterina AndronescuDepartment of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 1-7 Gh Polizu Street, 011061 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-2226-5849
Lia-Mara DițuFaculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, 1-3 Aleea Portocalelor, 060101 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-6593-255X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this study, zinc oxide nanoparticles were synthesized through a simple co-precipitation method starting from zinc acetate dihydrate and sodium hydroxide as reactants. The as-obtained ZnO nanoparticles were morphologically and structurally characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), photocatalytic activity, and by determining the antimicrobial activity against Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. The XRD pattern of the zinc oxide nanoparticles showed the wurtzite hexagonal structure, and its purity highlighted that the crystallinity correlated with the presence of a single product, zinc oxide. The ZnO nanoparticles have an average crystallite size of 19 ± 11 nm, which is in accordance with the microscopic data. ZnO nanoparticles were tested against methyl orange, used as a model pollutant, and it was found that they exhibit strong photocatalytic activity against this dye. The antibacterial activity of ZnO nanoparticles was tested against Gram-negative and Gram-positive strains (

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