COPPER OXIDE NANOPARTICLE SYNTHESIS BY GREEN SYNTHESIS APPROACH USING PARTHENIUM HYSTEROPHORUS AND ITS CHARACTERIZATION

Abstract

Nanotechnology is a rapidly growing multidisciplinary field with a wide range of applications in science and industry for the synthesis and characterisation of novel nanoscale materials. Engineered nanoparticles have been developed as a result of recent breakthroughs in nanotechnology, providing a real and radically new possibility in a variety of sectors such as nanoscale electronics, optics, magnetics, energy, catalysis, biomedicine, clothing, cosmetics, and material science. Metal and metal oxide nanoparticles have a wide range of uses due to recent advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology in a variety of fields, research institutes, and enterprises. Green nanotechnology is piqueing researchers' interest in creating nanoparticles in a simple, cost-effective, less hazardous, and environmentally acceptable method. Copper oxide nanoparticles have gotten more attention than other metal oxides because of their unique characteristics and uses. Green synthesis of copper and copper oxide nanoparticles proved more cost-effective and more environmentally friendly than many other physical and chemical approaches. The production of copper nanoparticles utilising the leaf extract of Parthenium hysterophorus is described in this study. UV-VIS spectrophotometer, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Energy dispersive X-ray (EDX), Dynamic light scattering (DLS), and X-ray diffraction (XRD) techniques were used to characterise the biosynthesized copper nanoparticle.