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ArticleHeliyon2024

Sulphanilamide degradation by undoped and copper doped ZnO, and ferromagnetic properties of fresh, aged, and heat-treated aged ZnO.

Daphne Mary John, Sreerag Kaaliveetil, Yadhu J Nair, S Sruthy, P Lasya, Ramanujam Brahmadesam Thoopul Srinivasa Raghava, G Sivasubramanian, K M Sreedhar, K M Sreekanth

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Article in Heliyon, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Daphne Mary JohnDepartment of Physics, Amrita School of Physical Sciences Coimbatore, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, 641112, India.
Sreerag KaaliveetilDepartment of Physics, Amrita School of Physical Sciences Coimbatore, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, 641112, India.
Yadhu J NairDepartment of Physics, Amrita School of Physical Sciences Coimbatore, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, 641112, India.
S SruthyDepartment of Physics, Amrita School of Physical Sciences Coimbatore, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, 641112, India.
P LasyaDepartment of Physics, Amrita School of Physical Sciences Coimbatore, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, 641112, India.
Ramanujam Brahmadesam Thoopul Srinivasa RaghavaDepartment of Physics, Amrita School of Physical Sciences Coimbatore, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, 641112, India.
G SivasubramanianAdvanced Multifunctional Materials and Analysis Laboratory (AMMAL), School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, 641112, India.
K M SreedharDepartment of Chemistry, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, Kerala, 690525, India.
K M SreekanthDepartment of Physics, Amrita School of Physical Sciences Coimbatore, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, 641112, India.

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This work looks into how well Cu-doped zinc oxide works as a photocatalyst when exposed to visible light to break down sulphanilamide. The synthesized samples were characterized by XRD and then FTIR techniques for structural besides compositional analysis. The approximate value of bandgap found out by NBE values of PL spectra showed a decrease in bandgap with doping. Deconvoluted PL spectra revealed the presence of radiative recombination pathways associated with zinc interstitial and zinc vacancy in addition to band-to-band recombination in all samples. FESEM images showed a nanoflake shape for pure ZnO, while Cu-ZnO had a pseudo-spherical shape. SQUID-VSM was adopted to understand the magnetic nature of freshly prepared, heated, and unheated aged samples. Ferromagnetic behavior was observed with saturation magnetization of 5.56 × 10

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DrugElectron-hole recombinationFerromagnetismPhotocatalytic degradationZinc oxide

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