Recent Advances in Materials for Wastewater Remediation, Detection, and Anticancer Agents

The first part of my presentation begins by providing an overview of water pollutants and their removal technologies. The exploration of new renewable biomass coconut spathe (CS) for the development of activated carbons (CSAC, surface area =1500 m2/g), its characterization with various spectroscopic techniques. The study utilized CSACfor the removal of various phenolic compounds, with an efficiency of qmax ranging from 77 to 400 mg/g. Further, CSAC utilized for impregnating n-Ag/ZnO on CSACfor the removal of pathogenic bacteria’s present in water. The same CS was used for the development of paper and the use of cellulose to impregnate photocatalytic material (CS@Ag2S/ZnS) for 97% rhodamine dye degradation in 1 h. In the second part of presentation, I will focus on presenting a rhodanine-based chemosensor (L1) for detecting putrescine and cadaverine, as well as exploring meat preservatives. Further, development of6,6, substituted 2,2 bipyridyl-based Schiff base (L2) for the detection of Al3+(11 nM) and In3+(110 nM) ions. More importantly, the potential application of probe L2could be used to quantify Al3+and In3+in water samples and Al3+in DrG cells and a zebrafish. In the third part of my discussion, the intermediate compounds prepared from L2were tested for anti-cancer potency in MCF-7 and HeLa cancer cell lines, with IC50values of 1.28 μM and 1.81 μM, respectively.