Green Synthesis and Characterization of Cu-Based Nanoparticles by Apple Peel and Assessmet of their Antioxidant Activity

Abstract

For the nanoparticle’s synthesis, green chemistry is a recent development and has drawn a lot of interest due to its capacity to develop advanced, reliable, attentive, and unadventurous methods. By manipulating green synthesis, formation of Cu-NPs is carried out with apple peels extracts which also acts as reducing substance. Due to its distinctive optical, electrical, imaging and catalytic properties, Cu-NPs rather than other metal nanoparticles have received an abundance of interest in a wide range of applications such as fabrication of gas detectors, photovoltaic cells as well as delivery of therapeutic material. The green process offers a lot of benefits comprehended are easily operated, harmless and environmentally secure. Cu-NPs exhibits activities like anti-oxidant, antibacterial, anti-fungal in fields of bio-medicine. Apple also contain anti-oxidative, anti-proliferative, anti-carcinogenic and anti-inflammatory properties. Epi-catechin, oligomer, trimer, glycosides quercetin, chlorogenic acid, phloridzin-3-hydroxy, pro-cyanidin, are the significant phenolic compounds that are found in apple peels. To analyzed the copper based nanoparticles different characterization techniques are employed includes UV-Visible spectrometer, X-Ray diffraction, FTIR-spectroscopy, EDX, TEM and SEM techniques. UV-Visible verified the absorption peak of NPs, XRD analysis of metallic NPs showed peaks that directly linked to its shaped. It shows the crystalline nature of Cu-NPs. According to FTIR results, bio-active functional groups are served as reducing and capping agents. Cu-NPs formation verified by EDAX. The homogenous spherical particles produced by green approach are visible by using TEM and SEM techniques.

Keywords: Apple Peel, Copper, Nanoparticles, Green Chemistry, Antibacterial