Eco-friendly Synthesis of Magnesium Oxide Nanoparticles using Arabic Gum

Subject Areas : Polymer

Saeid Taghavi Fardood ¹ , Ali Ramazani ² , Sang Woo Joo ³

1 - Department of Chemistry, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran
2 - 1Department of Chemistry, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran
3 - 2School of Mechanical Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, Republic of Korea

Received: 2017-12-24 Accepted : 2017-12-24 Published : 2018-01-01

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Abstract :

Magnesium oxide nanoparticles were synthesized using Arabic gum as a biotemplate andmagnesium nitrate as the magnesium source by the sol-gel method. This method has manyadvantages such as nontoxic, economic viability, ease to scale up, less time consuming andenvironmental friendly approach for the synthesis of MgO nanoparticles without using anyorganic chemicals. Nanoparticles were characterized by Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR)spectroscopy, UV-visible spectroscopy and powder X-ray diffraction (XRD). The averagecrystallite size of MgO nanoparticles was calculated using Scherrer formula and WilliamsonHall equation. The powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis revealed the formation of cubicphase MgO with average particle size of 14 (Scherrer formula) and 5.3 (Williamson Hallequation) nm.