SYNTHESIS OF ZINC OXIDE NANOPARTICLES UTILIZING LEAVES OF TARAXACUM OFFICINALE RADIX: AN ADAPTABLE TOOL AGAINST BACTERIAL, FUNGAL STRAINS AND A METHODOLOGY TOWARDS ECOLOGICAL REMEDIATION AS A PHOTOCATALYST

Abstract

The aim of this research work is to report a novel, facile green route method concentrate of leaves extract of Taraxacum officinale radix as a diminishing and covering generation of NPs was approved by the Yellowish shade of the colloidal suspension, which on additional UV-Vis spectrophotometer focused at 372 nm. Further morphological investigations using TEM, EDX, SEM uncovered that the incorporated particles were consistently round (21.47nm), monodisperse, basically made out of Zinc and Oxygen (3 keV,88.2(wt%) Antifungal Activity of zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) were examined against Candida albicans and Aspergillus niger by influencing cell capacities, which caused deformation in fungal hyphae. ZnO NP acted as an excellent catalyst (2.88 eV band gap energy) and mediated the reduction of toxic dyes. Further, promising antibacterial activity was depicted by ZnO NPs against two gram positive and three gram negative pathogens viz, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa respectively. Overall the experiments suggested that green NPs can be used effectively in agricultural and food safety application as well as it can be address for future medical concern. These nanoparticles went about as effective electron transfers thereby leading to enhanced catalytic reduction/degradation of model toxic and pollutant dyes.