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Department of Applied Science and Technology, A. C. Tech Campus, Anna University, Chennai-600 025, India E-mail: mdkumar@annauniv.edu Manuscript received online 29 August 2018, accepted 09 October 2018 In the present work, a new composite silver supported chitosan-silica (SiO2 /chitosan/AgNPs) has been synthesized and characterized through XRD and SEM analyses. The catalytic activity of the newly synthesized composite was investigated in degradation of malachite green as a model reaction and the reaction followed pseudo first order. |