Synthesis of Nano-Calcium Oxide from Waste Eggshell by Sol-Gel Method
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Department of Resources Recycling, University of Science & Technology, 217 Gajeong-ro, Gajeong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34113, Korea
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Korea Research Institute of Climate Change, 11, Subyeongongwon-gil, Chuncheon-si 24239, Korea
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Center for Carbon Mineralization, Mineral Resources Division, Korea Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources (KIGAM), 124 Gwahagno, Gajeong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34132, Korea
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Department of Bio-based Materials, School of Agriculture and Life Science, Chungnam National University, Daejeon City 34134, Korea
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Sustainability 2019, 11(11), 3196; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11113196
Received: 30 April 2019 / Revised: 30 May 2019 / Accepted: 3 June 2019 / Published: 7 June 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Technologies and Solutions for the Sustainable Climate Change Challenges)
The sol-gel technique has many advantages over the other mechanism for synthesizing metal oxide nanoparticles such as being simple, cheap and having low temperature and pressure. Utilization of waste materials as a precursor for synthesis makes the whole process cheaper, green and sustainable. Calcium Oxide nanoparticles have been synthesized from eggshell through the sol-gel method. Raw eggshell was dissolved by HCl to form CaCl2 solution, adding NaOH to the solution dropwise to agitate Ca (OH)2 gel and finally drying the gel at 900 °C for 1 h. The synthesized nanoparticle was characterized by scanning electron microscope (SEM), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-Ray fluorescence (XRF) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The FTIR and XRD results have clearly depicted the synthesis of calcium oxide from eggshell, which is mainly composed of calcium carbonate. The FE-SEM images of calcium oxide nanoparticles showed that the particles were almost spherical in morphology. The particle size of the nanoparticles was in the range 50 nm–198 nm. Therefore, waste eggshell can be considered as a promising resource of calcium for application of versatile fields.
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Keywords:
calcium oxide nanoparticle; sol-gel method; eggshell
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Habte, L.; Shiferaw, N.; Mulatu, D.; Thenepalli, T.; Chilakala, R.; Ahn, J.W. Synthesis of Nano-Calcium Oxide from Waste Eggshell by Sol-Gel Method. Sustainability 2019, 11, 3196. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11113196
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Habte L, Shiferaw N, Mulatu D, Thenepalli T, Chilakala R, Ahn JW. Synthesis of Nano-Calcium Oxide from Waste Eggshell by Sol-Gel Method. Sustainability. 2019; 11(11):3196. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11113196
Chicago/Turabian StyleHabte, Lulit, Natnael Shiferaw, Dure Mulatu, Thriveni Thenepalli, Ramakrishna Chilakala, and Ji W. Ahn 2019. "Synthesis of Nano-Calcium Oxide from Waste Eggshell by Sol-Gel Method" Sustainability 11, no. 11: 3196. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11113196
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