{"title":"Polyalthia longifolia seeds derived carbon: As peroxymonosulfate activator for efficient degradation of Rhodamine B dye","authors":"Elaiyappillai Elanthamilan , Subramanian Ramanathan , Sea-Fue Wang , Sirilux Poompradub","doi":"10.1016/j.materresbull.2025.113513","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The seeds of <em>Polyalthia longifolia</em> (PLS) have been utilized for a variety of purposes, such as the production of carbon-based materials for environmental remediation. They developed a catalytic carbon material (PLS-C) from PLS seeds, and it was employed for the catalytic degradation of Rhodamine B (RhB) dye by peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation in an aqueous medium. Various physicochemical analyses investigated the structural and morphological properties of the materials. The synthesized PLS-C shows only 62 % efficiency towards RhB dye degradation; however, activation by PMS boosts the degradation performance up to 92.7 % at 120 min. The PLS-C/PMS system shows excellent reusability, achieving 87.4 % degradation in the fifth cycle of the experiment. The radical scavenging experiment corroborated the involvement of reactive oxygen species in the experiment. Toxicology investigations of degraded solution were carried out by <em>Vigna mungo</em> plants, attesting to the non-toxicity of the degraded RhB dye water.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":18265,"journal":{"name":"Materials Research Bulletin","volume":"190 ","pages":"Article 113513"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3000,"publicationDate":"2025-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Materials Research Bulletin","FirstCategoryId":"88","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025540825002211","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The seeds of Polyalthia longifolia (PLS) have been utilized for a variety of purposes, such as the production of carbon-based materials for environmental remediation. They developed a catalytic carbon material (PLS-C) from PLS seeds, and it was employed for the catalytic degradation of Rhodamine B (RhB) dye by peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation in an aqueous medium. Various physicochemical analyses investigated the structural and morphological properties of the materials. The synthesized PLS-C shows only 62 % efficiency towards RhB dye degradation; however, activation by PMS boosts the degradation performance up to 92.7 % at 120 min. The PLS-C/PMS system shows excellent reusability, achieving 87.4 % degradation in the fifth cycle of the experiment. The radical scavenging experiment corroborated the involvement of reactive oxygen species in the experiment. Toxicology investigations of degraded solution were carried out by Vigna mungo plants, attesting to the non-toxicity of the degraded RhB dye water.
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Materials Research Bulletin is an international journal reporting high-impact research on processing-structure-property relationships in functional materials and nanomaterials with interesting electronic, magnetic, optical, thermal, mechanical or catalytic properties. Papers purely on thermodynamics or theoretical calculations (e.g., density functional theory) do not fall within the scope of the journal unless they also demonstrate a clear link to physical properties. Topics covered include functional materials (e.g., dielectrics, pyroelectrics, piezoelectrics, ferroelectrics, relaxors, thermoelectrics, etc.); electrochemistry and solid-state ionics (e.g., photovoltaics, batteries, sensors, and fuel cells); nanomaterials, graphene, and nanocomposites; luminescence and photocatalysis; crystal-structure and defect-structure analysis; novel electronics; non-crystalline solids; flexible electronics; protein-material interactions; and polymeric ion-exchange membranes.