Green synthesis of crystalline bismuth nanoparticles using lemon juice

Md Mahiuddin; Bungo Ochiai

doi:10.1039/d1ra03560f

Green synthesis of crystalline bismuth nanoparticles using lemon juice

RSC Adv. 2021 Aug 4;11(43):26683-26686. doi: 10.1039/d1ra03560f. eCollection 2021 Aug 2.

Authors

Md Mahiuddin¹, Bungo Ochiai¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University Jonan 4-3-16 Yonezawa Yamagata 992-8510 Japan ochiai@yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp +81-238-26-3092 +81-238-26-3092.

Abstract

Lemon juice effectively served as a reducing and capping agent for an easy, cost-effective, and green synthesis of crystalline bismuth nanoparticles (BiNPs) in basic aqueous media. Spherical BiNPs with a rhombohedral crystalline structure are capped by phytochemicals and stably dispersible in aqueous media. The BiNPs effectively catalyze the reduction of 4-nitrophenol to 4-aminophenol by NaBH₄.