“…Therefore, a broad spectrum of techniques has been applied for the characterization of catalytic systems (inorganic nanoparticles along with stabilizers) used for the Cr(VI) reduction. The UV–vis spectrophotometry (UV–vis) ( Tripathi et al, 2018 ; Kalwar et al, 2013 ), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) ( Lv et al, 2020 ; Tripathi et al, 2018 ; Kalwar et al, 2013 ), X-ray diffraction (XRD) ( Shao et al, 2017 ; Chen et al, 2020 ), Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) ( Lv et al, 2020 ; Zhang et al, 2018 ; Chen et al, 2020 ; Tian et al, 2020 ), Field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) ( Tian et al, 2020 ), dynamic light scattering (DLS) ( Zhang et al, 2018 ), Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) ( Lv et al, 2020 ; Chen et al, 2018a ; Tian et al, 2020 ), X-rays photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) ( Shao et al, 2017 ; Chen et al, 2018a , 2020 ; Tian et al, 2020 ; Wu et al, 2020 ), Atomic force microscopy (AFM) ( Wu et al, 2020 ), Raman spectroscopy (RS) ( Lv et al, 2020 ; Chen et al, 2018a ; Wu et al, 2020 ), Brunauer Emmett-Teller (BET) ( Lv et al, 2020 ; Chen et al, 2018a ; Liu et al, 2016a ), Magnetometeric analysis (MA) ( Chen et al, 2018a ) Elemental mapping (EM) ( Chen et al, 2020 ) and scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive spectrometry (SEM-EDS) ( Shao et al, 2017 ; Wu et al, 2020 ) are frequently used for characterization as well as for investigation of catalysis process.…”