Abstract

The present research work reports an eco-friendly route for preparing gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) with high catalytic activity using polyphenol extracted from salvia officinalis. In both alkaline (pH ∼ 11) and acidic media (pH ∼ 5), the polyphenol induced rapid reduction of the Au (III) salt and lead to the formation of highly monodisperse and spherical small (S) and larger (L) AuNPs, respectively. The average particle size was found to be ∼ 6 nm for S and ∼ 27 nm for L AuNPs, respectively. FT-IR revealed that polyphenol species are capped onto the nanoparticles surface favorizing a high aqueous colloidal stability of the AuNPs in a wide pH range. In addition, the produced AuNPs exhibited significant size-dependent degradation rate of p-nitrophenol (p-NP) and methylene blue (MB) to p-aminophenol (p-AP) and leucomethylene blue (LMB), respectively.

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Title
Synthesis of ultra-small gold nanoparticles by polyphenol extracted from Salvia officinalis and efficiency for catalytic reduction of p-nitrophenol and methylene blue
Author
Mohamed Habib Oueslati 1 ; Lotfi Ben Tahar 2 ; Abdel Halim Harrath 3 

 College of Science, Northern Border University, Arar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Faculté des Sciences de Bizerte, Laboratoire des composés hétéro-organiques et des matériaux nanostructurés, Université de Carthage, Zarzouna, Tunisia 
 College of Science, Northern Border University, Arar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Faculté des Sciences de Bizerte, Laboratoire des composés hétéro-organiques et des matériaux nanostructurés, Université de Carthage, Zarzouna, Tunisia; Faculty of Science of Tunis, Tunis El Manar University, Tunis, Tunisia 
 College of Science, Department of Zoology, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 
End page
26
Publication year
2020
Publication date
Mar 2020
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd.
ISSN
17518253
e-ISSN
17517192
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2371203625
Copyright
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