Synthesis and characterization of novel nanoparticles for various industrial applications

Abstract

Our planet suffers from the daily discharging of pollutants resulting from industries and factories waste. Water is the most crucial and fundamental natural resource to ensure the sustainability of life on our planet. The limitations in fresh water resources due to climate changes, pollution and over populations are presenting a threat to our existence. The drawbacks in wastewater treatment conventional methods have intrigued scholars all over the globe to find innovative solutions regarding this threat, so most of scientific researches are concerned in solving this crisis. In the last decades, semiconductor-assisted photocatalysis was intensively studied as a ‘green’ and sustainable method for wastewater treatment. Cadmium Selenide (CdSe) is a semiconductor with relatively small and narrow band gap energy (1.74 eV). This small band gap energy has paved the way for its utilization in a plethora of different heterogenous photocatalytic applications such as laser applications, solar cells, wastewater treatment, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), CO2 photoreduction