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Highly Versatile Gum Acacia Based Swellable Microgels Encapsulating Cobalt Nanoparticles; An Approach to Rapid and Recoverable Environmental Nano-catalysis

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Lyophilic microgels based on Gum Acacia (GAC) were synthesized at room temperature and normal pressure. Briefly, high yield of the spherical shaped microgels of size ≤ 50 µm was obtained via introducing linear GAC and divinyl sulfone (DS) in the reverse micelle cores of NBSS in the stirring gasoline. The GAC microgels were then utilized as synthetic micro-templates for fabricating their nanocomposites with Cobalt (Co), to subsequently produce GAC-Co nanocomposite microgels. The as synthesis GAC based microgels and the GAC-Co microgels were characterized through FTIR, TGA, DSC, SEM, EDS, and TEM. Different amounts of GAC-Co microgels were used as nano-catalyst for the degradation of poisonous aromatic compounds and an Azo dye in aqueous medium. Briefly, 1 g GAC-Co microgels degraded 100 mL (250 ppm solution) of each the aforementioned compounds in ≤ 25 min at neutral pH. The increase in the kinetic parameter i.e., rate constant (kapp) value with increase in the GAC-Co nanocomposite microgels amounts manifests the positive impact of the fabricated nano-catalyst on these compounds degradation at room temperature.

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Higher Education Commission of Pakistan supported this research work under the SRGP Grant No. 2457.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Islamabad, 45650, Pakistan

    Muhammad Farooq & Shaukat Saeed

  2. Department of Chemistry, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, 45320, Pakistan

    Junaid Ihsan & Mohammad Siddiq

  3. CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, Anhui, China

    Abdul Haleem

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Farooq, M., Ihsan, J., Saeed, S. et al. Highly Versatile Gum Acacia Based Swellable Microgels Encapsulating Cobalt Nanoparticles; An Approach to Rapid and Recoverable Environmental Nano-catalysis. J Inorg Organomet Polym 31, 2030–2042 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10904-020-01870-6

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