Since the early ages, human beings have used colored materials to leave marks on their environment and following generations. In time, paints, which gained great importance with painting objects items they used, brought environmental problems them. Synthetic paints/dyes meet increasing need over time had be eliminated from environment. Nowadays, using bacteria is considered as a good solution f...

The present study was conducted to screen a laccase-producing fungal endophyte, optimize fermentation conditions, and evaluate the decolorization ability of the laccase. A new fungal endophyte capable of laccase-producing was firstly isolated from pigeon pea and identified as Myrothecium verrucaria based on a ITS-rRNA sequences analysis. Meanwhile, various fermentation parameters on the laccase...

Twenty-two azo dyes were used to study the influence of substituents on azo dye biodegradability and to explore the possibility of enhancing the biodegradabilities of azo dyes without affecting their properties as dyes by changing their chemical structures. Streptomyces spp. and Phanerochaete chrysosporium were used in the study. None of the actinomycetes (Streptomyces rochei A10, Streptomyces ...

a simple, economical, precise and fast visible spectrophotometric method has been developed for the determination of azathioprine in tablet dosage form. developed method is based on the formation of extractable colored complex of drug with colouring agent indigo carmine and methyl orange. a wavelength maximum was found to be 683.7 nm and 566 nm. the concentration range of 15-50 μg ml-1 with of ...

This study concerns the decolorization and detoxification of the azo dye Acid Orange 51 (AO51) by crude laccase from Trametes trogii produced in solid culture using sawdust as support media. A three-level Box-Behnken factorial design with four factors (enzyme concentration, 1-hydroxybenzotriazole (HBT) concentration, dye concentration and reaction time) combined with response surface methodolog...

ZnO and SnO2-doped ZnO nanoparticles were prepared by a sol–gel method for the first time. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) were used to characterize the ZnO and SnO2-doped ZnO samples. Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) have proved very effective in treatment of the various hazardous organic pollutants such as surfactants and pharmaceuticals...

the electrocatalytic degradation of methyl orange (mo) on pbo2-tio2 nanocomposite electrodes was studied by cyclic voltammetry and bulk electrolysis. the results reveal that pbo2-tio2 nanocomposite electrodes possess higher oxygen evolution overpotential than pbo2 electrodes and the electrocatalytic degradation of mo on the electrodes is direct oxidation process. the influence of experimental p...

In their description of the isolation and properties of ceruloplasmin, Holmberg and Laurel1 (1) noted that this intensely blue copper-protein could be decolorized by reducing agents such as ascorbic acid. Although the decoloriaation was “. . . completely reversible in the presence of oxygen, attempts to (restore blue color by oxidation) with potassium ferricyanide were not successful.” They won...