Sorption of pollutants by porous carbon, carbon nanotubes and fullerene-an overview

VK Gupta, TA Saleh - Environmental science and pollution research, 2013 - Springer
The quality of water is continuously deteriorating due to its increasing toxic threat to humans
and the environment. It is imperative to perform treatment of wastewater in order to remove …

Electrochemical analysis of some toxic metals by ion–selective electrodes

VK Gupta, MR Ganjali, P Norouzi, H Khani… - Critical Reviews in …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
An overview of potentiometric sensors that are capable of detecting toxic heavy metal ions in
environmental samples is presented and discussed. Notwithstanding the tremendous work …

Photo-catalyzed degradation of hazardous dye methyl orange by use of a composite catalyst consisting of multi-walled carbon nanotubes and titanium dioxide

TA Saleh, VK Gupta - Journal of colloid and interface science, 2012 - Elsevier
The high rate of electron/hole pair recombination reduces the quantum yield of the
processes with TiO2 and represents its major drawback. Adding a co-adsorbent increases …

Removal of Cu, Zn, and Cd from aqueous solutions by the dairy manure-derived biochar

X Xu, X Cao, L Zhao, H Wang, H Yu, B Gao - Environmental Science and …, 2013 - Springer
Purpose Biochar derived from waste biomass is now gaining much attention for its function
as a biosorbent for environmental remediation. The objective of this study was to determine …

Preparation and characterization of V2O5/ZnO nanocomposite system for photocatalytic application

R Saravanan, VK Gupta, E Mosquera… - Journal of Molecular …, 2014 - Elsevier
The removal of dyes from industrial wastewater using visible-light driven catalyst is one of
the major challenging issues. Vanadium pentoxide (V 2 O 5) has a considerable attention as …

Photo-catalytic degradation of toxic dye amaranth on TiO2/UV in aqueous suspensions

VK Gupta, R Jain, A Mittal, TA Saleh, A Nayak… - Materials science and …, 2012 - Elsevier
The photo-catalytic degradation of an azo dye− Amaranth (AM)–has been investigated in
TiO2/UV aqueous suspensions. The results obtained from the experiments during …

Synthesis and characterization of alumina nano-particles polyamide membrane with enhanced flux rejection performance

TA Saleh, VK Gupta - Separation and purification technology, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper presents polyamide (PA) nanocomposite membrane containing alumina
nanoparticles synthesized via in situ interfacial polymerization. Polymerization reaction …

A new approach for the degradation of high concentration of aromatic amine by heterocatalytic Fenton oxidation: kinetic and spectroscopic studies

S Karthikeyan, VK Gupta, R Boopathy, A Titus… - Journal of Molecular …, 2012 - Elsevier
In the present investigation an attempt was made to degrade aniline in the synthetic effluent
by homogeneous and heterogeneous Fenton oxidation process. Experiments were carried …

Mercury selective potentiometric sensor based on low rim functionalized thiacalix [4]-arene as a cationic receptor

VK Gupta, B Sethi, RA Sharma, S Agarwal… - Journal of Molecular …, 2013 - Elsevier
A novel potentiometric mercury (II) sensor based on the use of cation receptor 5, 11, 17, 23-
tetra-tert-butyl-25, 27-dihydroxy-26, 28-bis (O-methyl glycylcarbonylmethoxy) thiacalix [4] …

A novel copper (II) selective sensor based on dimethyl 4, 4′(o-phenylene) bis (3-thioallophanate) in PVC matrix

VK Gupta, LP Singh, R Singh, N Upadhyay… - Journal of Molecular …, 2012 - Elsevier
The construction, performance characteristics and application of a novel copper (II)
membrane sensor based on a new Dimethyl 4, 4′-(o-phenylene) bis (3-thioallophanate) …