Study of the influence concentration difference of copper in properties of cerium nanopowder

Areej Adnan Hateef; Essebti Dhahri; Mohammed Rasheed; Habiba Kadhim; Zahraa Abbas; Noor Hassan

doi:10.15330/pcss.25.4.801-810

Authors

Areej Adnan Hateef Authority of Scientific Research, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Baghdad, Iraq
Essebti Dhahri Laboratory de Physics Application, college of Sciences, University Sfax, Tunis
Mohammed Rasheed Applied Sciences Department, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq
Habiba Kadhim Authority of Scientific Research, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Baghdad, Iraq
Zahraa Abbas Authority of Scientific Research, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Baghdad, Iraq
Noor Hassan Dental Department, University of Kufa, Iraq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15330/pcss.25.4.801-810

Keywords:

Cerium oxide, sol-gel, nanopowder, Energy gap, antibacterial growth

Abstract

Various concentrations (3%, 6%, 9%) of copper added to pure cerium oxide nanopowder were prepared by the sol-gel method. The prepared samples were examined using different techniques to understand their surface compositional and morphological properties. The face-centered cubic (FCC) structure of CeO₂:Cu was identified from X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis. It was observed that the calculated crystalline size of the prepared powders decreased when the copper concentration increased from 3% to 9%. The surface morphology and shape of CeO₂:Cu were examined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) which images confirmed CeO₂:Cu nanopowders prepared has cubic shape and uniformly well-dispersed . Moreover, a slight distortion in the surface morphology was obtained when the Cu concentration was increased. Meanwhile Bond formation between cerium and oxygen (Ce-O) was confirmed using FTIR spectroscopy. While UV and visible spectroscopy determined band gap energies of 2.63 eV for pure cerium oxide while this value decreasing when concentration of copper increasing; this because absorptance increasing powder measuered . This paper can provide possible mechanisms after results showed CeO₂:Cu nanopowders have a good activity antibacterial against many pathogenic bacteria. Hence, CeO₂:Cu can be used as a biomaterial in nanobiotechnology applications.

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