“…The peaks of PET/CO appeared at 1709 cm -1 , 1238 cm -1 , 1104 cm -1 , 1025 cm -1 were corresponding to stretching vibration of C=O, asymmetric stretching of aromatic ester, ring asymmetric stretching and stretching vibration of C-O respectively. The peaks between 3600 cm -1 and 3000 cm -1 represented the hydrogen bonded OH stretching (Carrillo et al 2004;Alimohammadi et al 2018;Palaskar et al 2011). After the final modification, the new peaks appeared at 1667 cm -1 , 1545 cm -1 , 1420 cm -1 , 1238 cm -1 , cm -1 , 827 cm -1 corresponding to the bond stretch of C=C, condensed aromatic ring O-H, carboxylic O-H, P-O-C aromatic stretching, C-OH stretching and P-CH2 bond, respectively (Carrillo et al 2004;Palaskar et al 2011;Gaan and Sun 2007;Gashti et al 2013a;Ren et al 2007;Gashti et al 2013b;Shin et al 1997).…”