NONE 20260626103231056 wseas/wseas content-registration-form@crossref.org content-registration-form International Journal of Chemical Engineering and Materials 2945-0519 Deli̇a Teresa Sponza Department of Environmental Engineering Dokuz Eylül University Tınaztepe Campus, 35160 Buca/Izmir, TURKEY Ruki̇ye Özteki̇n Department of Environmental Engineering Dokuz Eylül University Tınaztepe Campus, 35160 Buca/Izmir, TURKEY A new nanocomposite namely gold nanoparticles doped cadmium selenium doped tungsten trioxide (Au/CdSe/WO3) photocatalyst was produced under laboratory conditions to photodegrade the toxaphene and tetradifon insecticides from a chemical industry wastewaters producing insecticides. The XRD pathways of WO3 exhibited that it displays a number of peaks at 2θ = 25.09o, 24.63o, 25.60o, 27.09o, 29.09o, 34.011o, 35.99o, 42.86o, 53.40o. FTIR results showed that the band at 976 cm−1 signifies the W = O stretching vibration whereas the band appearing at 1396 cm−1 corroborated to the O–H bending vibration in W–OH. TEM data showed that Au/CdSe/WO3 nanocomposite consisting of Au, CdSe and WO3. Bare WO3 exhibited irregular/non-spherical nano-beads while the CdSe has sheets in huge density with packed sheets . The surface plasmon resonance (SPR) peak at around 590 nm confirms the transformation of Au/CdSe/WO3 nanomaterials to plasmonic Au/CdSe/WO3 nanocomposite. The XPS peak at 288.12 eV signifies the existence of oxygenated functional groups such as C-O, C O, or COOH within nanocomposite, resulting from oxidation of carbon. The bandgap values of nanocomposite calculated with Kubelka-Munk function are 3.05 eV, 3.15 eV and 3.16 eV at 500°C, 650°C and 800°C temperatures,respectively. 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