To address the growing demand for clean water on a global scale, nanotechnology, such as functional composite particles, has gained much interest. A potential low-cost approach involves the use of pectin-coated hybrid particles. Pectin, a structural heteropolysaccharide found in the cell walls of plants and peels of fruits, chelates to heavy metal ions in solution. Using a simplified coupling reaction, this biopolymer was covalently attached to the surface of silica nanoparticles, which were prepared via the Stöber method. The synthesized particles were characterized using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and dynamic light scattering (DLS).<br/>

A facile synthesis of pectin-coated silica nanoparticles

255th National Meeting (2018)

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