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Aligarh Muslim University
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About: Aligarh Muslim University is a education organization based out in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Adsorption. The organization has 8218 authors who have published 16416 publications receiving 289068 citations. The organization is also known as: AMU.
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TL;DR: In this article, the synthesis of different rare earth metal (La, Nd, Sm and Dy)-doped ZnO nanoparticles using a facile sol-gel route is reported.
Abstract: Rare earth metal doping into semiconductor oxides is considered to be an effective approach to enhance photocatalytic activity due to its ability to retard the electron–hole pair recombination upon excitation. Herein, we report the synthesis of different rare earth metal (La, Nd, Sm and Dy)-doped ZnO nanoparticles using a facile sol–gel route followed by evaluation of their photocatalytic activity by studying the degradation of methylene blue (MB) and Rhodamine B (RhB) under UV-light irradiation. Different standard analytical techniques were employed to investigate the microscopic structure and physiochemical properties of the prepared samples. The formation of the hexagonal wurtzite structure of ZnO was established by XRD and TEM analyses. In addition, the incorporation of rare earth metal into ZnO is confirmed by the shift of XRD planes towards lower theta values. All metal doped ZnO showed improved photocatalytic activity toward the degradation of MB, of which, Nd-doped ZnO showed the best activity with 98% degradation efficiency. In addition, mineralization of the dye was also observed, indicating 68% TOC removal in 180 min with Nd-doped ZnO nanoparticles. The influence of different operational parameters on the photodegradation of MB was also investigated and discussed in detail. Additionally, a possible photocatalytic mechanism for degradation of MB over Nd-doped ZnO nanoparticles has been proposed and involvement of hydroxyl radicals as reactive species is elucidated by radical trapping experiments.
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TL;DR: In vitro interaction studies of EA with the primary plasma protein, human serum albumin, reveal a static mode of quenching with binding constant Kb ∼104 reflecting high affinity of EA for HSA and thermodynamic signatures of the HSA-EA interaction in the complex reflect dominance of hydrogen bonds.
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TL;DR: In this review, the latest developments for the fabrication of gold nanoparticles from herbal extract, their characterization by UV-vis.
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TL;DR: High content of ellagitannins is revealed which might be responsible for promising antioxidant and antimutagenic activities of P. granatum peel extract which is to be explored to understand the exact mechanism of action as well as their therapeutic efficacy.
Abstract: Over the past few decades, scientific research has indicated a credible basis for some of the traditional ethnomedicinal uses of pomegranate. This study aims to evaluate the broad spectrum antioxidant and antimutagenic activities of peel extracts of pomegranate. The sequentially extracted Punica granatum peel fractions were tested for their antioxidant activity by DPPH free radical scavenging, phosphomolybdenum, FRAP (Fe 3+ reducing power) and CUPRAC (cupric ions (Cu 2+ ) reducing ability) assays. The methanol fraction showed highest antioxidant activity by all the four in vitro assays comparable to ascorbic acid and butylated hydroxy toluene (BHT) followed by activity in ethanol, acetone, and ethyl acetate fractions. Based on the promising antioxidant activities, the methanol fraction was evaluated for antimutagenic activity by Ames Salmonella /microsome assay against sodium azide (NaN 3 ), methyl methane sulphonate (MMS), 2-aminofluorene (2-AF) and benzo(a)pyrene (B(a)P) induced mutagenicity in Salmonella typhimurium (TA97a, TA98, TA100 and TA102) tester strains. The methanol fraction showed no sign of mutagenicity at tested concentration of 10–80 μg/mL. This fraction showed antimutagenic activity against NaN 3 and MMS with percent inhibition of mutagenicity ranging from 66.76% to 91.86% in a concentration-dependent manner. Similar trend of inhibition of mutagenicity (81.2–88.58%) against indirect mutagens (2-AF and B(a)P) was also recorded. Phytochemical analysis by HPLC, LC–MS and total phenolic content revealed high content of ellagitannins which might be responsible for promising antioxidant and antimutagenic activities of P. granatum peel extract. Further, contribution of bioactive compounds detected in this study is to be explored to understand the exact mechanism of action as well as their therapeutic efficacy.
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Sandeep Kumar | 94 | 1563 | 38652 |
Detlef W. Bahnemann | 88 | 517 | 48826 |
Gaurav Sharma | 82 | 1244 | 31482 |
Sang Un Ahn | 82 | 391 | 22067 |
M. Irfan | 80 | 241 | 20154 |
M. Mohisin Khan | 77 | 266 | 17940 |
Nazeer Ahmad | 74 | 143 | 18305 |
Rajeev Kumar | 72 | 296 | 20848 |
Syed F. Ali | 71 | 446 | 18669 |
Ahmad Umar | 71 | 740 | 21014 |
Aamir Ahmad | 63 | 251 | 13404 |
Mohammad Athar | 63 | 329 | 14384 |
A. Ahmad Masoodi | 62 | 80 | 12771 |
Shahid Husain | 62 | 437 | 14444 |
Mohd Danish Azmi | 61 | 186 | 13130 |