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Semester Plan

Work Report

Future Plan

Presented by : Engr. Naeem Akram

Presented to : Prof. Jide Wang
College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
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 Goals defined for this semester,

 Synthesis of different bimetallic oxides and their application
for Photodegradation of different Azo dyes.
Bimetallic Oxides: NiFe, MnFe, CoFe
Photodegradation system: As in previous work/without
Persulfate/ Under sunlight.
 Azo Dyes: Rhodamine-B, Congo Red, Methylene Blue,
Malachite Green
 3 Tentative Semester Schedule
Duration Work to do
2019-02-20 to 2019-03-11 Synthesis of bimetallic PBA and oxides
2019-03-12 to 2019-03-31 Application for photodegradation of RhB/MB/CR/MG
2019-04-02 to 2019-04-10 Going to Pakistan for a short Leave
2019-04-10 to 2019-05-10 Influence of Parameters and Diff. Characterizations
2019-05-11 to 2019-05-30 Mechanistic Studies
2019-06-01 to 2019-07-05 If every thing goes well then write up of this work

Note: If results aren’t satisfactory then will find some other bimetallic oxides
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Semester Plan
 Comparison: With Iron/Nickle/Cobalt Oxides and some
bimetallic oxides from literature reported.
 Moreover: Reduction of toxic compounds e.g. Chromium and
Calculations of TOC and COD.
 Meanwhile, Continuity of previous ongoing part and dealing
with editor and reviewers of JHAZMAT for publishing of 1st
work.
5 Work Report
Synthesis of MFe PBA precursor and respective M-Oxides, Where, M is Ni, Mn, Co.
Procedure:
M-Fe PBA were synthesized by a simple self-assembly method at room temperature.
First of all prepare two solutions separately. M(NO 3)2·nH2O (6.0 mmol) and sodium
citrate (9.0 mmol) were dissolved in a 100 mL of distilled water system under vigorous
stirring, solution labeled as Solution A. K 3[Fe(CN)6] (4.0 mmol) added in 100 mL of
distilled water providing continuous stirring named as Solution B. Pour solution B
dropwise to solution A, providing stirring for 30 mins, a colloidal solution will be
obtained. Resulting colloidal solution was aged at room temperature for 24 hours.
Then centrifuging and drying.
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MFe-Oxides:
Precipitation Method:
As synthesized MFe-precursors were Annealing:
used to prepare MFe-Oxide
nanoparticles. Dissolve 5 mg of MFe- As-prepared MFe-PBA cages were
precursor and 20 mM Na2S2O8 into the 10 annealed at T 0C (400-500) with a
mL 0.1 M NaOH aqueous solution stir heating temperature rate of 3 0C min-
the solution for about one hour. 1 in air.
Centrifuging and drying. Reference: DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201506315
Reference: DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.8b06007
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SEM
CuFe-O (a-e)
a-c via Precipitation
(d) (e) (f)
d-e via Annealing
NiFe-O (f-i)
f-g via Precipitation
h-i via Annealing
(g) (h) (i)
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Future Plan

 Continuity of previous work

 Application of as synthesized catalyst for Photodegradation of
RhB/CR/MB/MG
 XRD/XPS and FESEM
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