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Comparative Study of Physicochemical Properties of MCM-41 Silica Nanoparticles Obtained from Recycled Glass and TEOS

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There are wide applications that can be given to MCM-41 type silica nanoparticles. On the other hand, glass waste is produced in large quantities and is difficult to remove. Therefore, in this research work, the physicochemical properties of silica nanoparticles with mesoporous hexagonal structure type MCM-41 synthesized by alkaline sol-gel with sodium silicate (SS) obtained from recycled glass are compared against them synthesized at the same conditions but with commercial tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS). To obtain sodium silicate, an alkaline fusion process was performed and confirmed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The products of the sol-gel synthesis were analyzed by low-angle X-ray diffraction (SAXRD), adsorption-desorption of N2, SEM and FTIR. The results show that, through the alkaline fusion process, the glass waste can be converted to sodium silicate and therefore can be used for the synthesis of MCM-41 type nanoparticles with physicochemical characteristics very similar to that obtained with commercial TEOS, as it was found that using SS as precursor spherical nanoparticles with a certain agglomeration can be obtained and that these particles have the hexagonal pore structure as the TEOS obtained particles, with a low broadening of the interplanar spaces and cell parameter; also, was observed that the surface properties are almost the same for samples obtained with both precursors. Therefore, the MCM-41 nanoparticles synthesized with glass waste could be used in any application in which this type of structure could be useful.

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The XRD analyses were carried out at the National Laboratory of Nano and Biomaterials, Cinvestav-IPN; funded by the projects FOMIX-Yucatán 2008-108160, CONACYT LAB-2009-01-123913, 292692, 294643, 188345 and 204822. Thanks are due to Dra. Patricia Quintana-Owen for the access to LANNBIO, to M.C. Daniel Aguilar Treviño for obtaining the diffractograms, and to Eng. Emilio Corona for corrective maintenance of the D-8 Advance diffractometer.

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  1. Centro de Investigación en Corrosión, Universidad Autónoma de Campeche, Av. Héroe de Nacozari 480, 24079, San Francisco de Campeche, Campeche, México

    Marina S. Ramírez-Arévalo, Tezozomoc Pérez-López & William A. Talavera-Pech

  2. Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados, Unidad Mérida, Antigua Carretera a Progreso Km 6, Cordemex, 97310, Mérida, Yucatán, México

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    Gerardo del J. Fajardo-San Miguel

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Conceptualization, Ramírez-Arévalo, Pérez-López, and Talavera-Pech; methodology, material preparation, data collection, and analysis were performed by Ramírez-Arévalo, Quintana-Owen, Fajardo-San Miguel, and Talavera-Pech; investigation: Ramírez-Arévalo; resources, Pérez-López, and Talavera-Pech; writing—original draft preparation, Talavera-Pech; writing—review and editing Quintana-Owen, Fajardo San-Miguel, and Pérez-López. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

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This article addressed a new approach to recycling waste glass giving it new properties as a nanomaterial and demonstrating that using the same synthesis procedure, the nanomaterials synthesized from this refuse could give almost the same properties as nanomaterials obtained from a commercial product.

In this work, we synthesize and compare the physicochemical properties of MCM-41 silica nanoparticles obtained from (1) sodium silicate (SS) from a recycled glass of our institution and (2) commercial TEOS. The results showed that using the same procedure synthesis, there is no difference in the morphological, structural, and surface properties of synthesized materials regardless of whether they were obtained with a comercial TEOS or with SS from recycled glass.

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Ramírez-Arévalo, M.S., Pérez-López, T., Quintana-Owen, P. et al. Comparative Study of Physicochemical Properties of MCM-41 Silica Nanoparticles Obtained from Recycled Glass and TEOS. Silicon 15, 2653–2661 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12633-022-02206-4

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