Eco-friendly Synthesis of Magnesium Oxide Nanoparticles using Arabic Gum

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