Carbon Nano Particles as better Adsorbent against Photocatalytic Degrader for the Rhodamine-B Dye

Paper industries will be using a different kind of dyes for producing various kinds of paper. Rhodamine–B (RhB) dye is one of the major sources of color effluents from textile and paper dyeing industries, and they cause longterm effects for on an aquatic environment. So this work mainly focused on the synthesis of carbon nanoparticles from neem leaves, characterization and its adsorption and photocatalytic action against RhB dye. In this study, Carbon nanoparticles (C NPs) from neem leaves were synthesized for adsorption and photo catalytic degradation of RhB dye used in paper industries. The synthesized carbon NPs were characterized by the powder XRay Diffraction and Scanning Electron Microscopy. The adsorption and photocatalytic properties of Ccarbon NPs were examined for 1 hour by studying the degradation of the RhB dye at every 5 minutes time interval through UVVisible spectrophotometer. The results obtained shown that carbonC NPs acts as better adsorbents than as photo catalysts.