Green Synthesis and Characterisation of Mucuna Pruriens Mediated Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles Using Transmission Electron Microscope

Introduction: Nanoscience and nanotechnology are the investigation and utilization of minuscule things and can be used over the different science fields, for instance, biology, chemistry, physical science, material science, and designing. In spite of the fact that advanced innovation requests the improvement of nanotechnologies in multidisciplinary science, including the creation of nanoparticles (NPs), it goes back from the Before-Christ time. Nanoparticles can be combined utilizing numerous techniques like physical, substance or organic, otherwise called green synthesis. Titanium dioxide (TiO₂) semiconductor nanoparticles are one sort of significant and promising photocatalysts in photocatalysis as a result of their extraordinary optical and electronic properties. Mucuna pruriens, broadly known as velvet bean or cowhage is a leguminous plant that has been utilized for quite a long time in Ayurvedic medication.

Aim: The main aim of the present study is to evaluate the green synthesis and characterisation of Mucuna pruriens mediated titanium dioxide nanoparticles using transmission electron microscope.

Materials and Methods: The titanium dioxide was synthesised using the seed extract of Mucuna pruriens. Analytical tools like UV-Visible spectrophotometer and Transmission Electron microscope were used to understand the surface chemistry of the TiO₂ nanoparticles.

Results: UV-vis spectroscopic analysis of TiO₂ nanoparticles synthesized using Mucuna pruriens showed the peak at 280 nm and confirms the TiO₂ nanoparticles formation. Under transmission electron microscopes, the nanoparticles were spherical and some were in undefined shapes. The average size of the nanoparticles was 25-76 nm.

Conclusion: The present study concludes that the TiO₂ nanoparticles synthesised showed spherical shape.