Using Banana Peels for Green Synthesis of Mixed-Phase Titanium Dioxide Nanopowders

Abstract

In this work, titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanopowders were synthesized from the titanium isopropoxide and banana peels by the solvothermal method. The synthesized nanopowder was polycrystalline and containing both anatase and rutile phases of TiO2, with minimum nanoparticle size of 25.41, and good structural purity, which was supported by the spectroscopic measurements. The proposed method can be described as low-cost, reliable and simple method to synthesize TiO2 nanopowders for practical applications that require mass quantities of this material with sufficiently good characteristics.