TY - JOUR ID - 37121 TI - Removal of methylene blue by mesoporous CuO/SiO2 as catalyst JO - International Journal of New Chemistry JA - IJNC LA - en SN - 2645-7237 AU - Rahmani, Alireza AU - Rahmani, Hossein AU - Zonouzi, Afsaneh AD - School of Chemistry, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran 14155-6455, Iran AD - Department of Chemistry, , Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST), Tehran , Iran Y1 - 2020 PY - 2020 VL - 7 IS - 3 SP - 169 EP - 183 KW - Reduction KW - Organic pollutant KW - Nanoporous DO - 10.22034/ijnc.2019.116043.1060 N2 - Among a wide range of pollutants, organic pollutants have given rise to major environmental concerns. Various methods have been considered to mitigate the damage, including catalytic reduction to less hazardous compounds. Catalysts that benefit from high surface area and suitable surface sites for various steps of the catalytic reaction have shown outstanding results in performing such duties. Mesoporous CuO/SiO2 has been synthesized and characterized here and it showed excellent results for catalytic removal of methylene blue as a model organic pollutant. Several control samples were also studied to postulate a possible mechanism for activity enhancement. UR - https://www.ijnc.ir/article_37121.html L1 - https://www.ijnc.ir/article_37121_75580c129f9b363aff3c528f71cc9d1c.pdf ER -