TY - GEN
T1 - Turning Food Waste into Bioactive Glass
T2 - 2023 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference, URTC 2023
AU - Chapalapalli, Anika Reddy
AU - Duerr, Maxwell
AU - Reyes, Adrian
AU - Weaver, Tessa
AU - Wong, Sera
AU - Goel, Ashutosh
AU - Joseph, Nedgine
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 IEEE.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - With environmental issues such as over-consumption becoming prominent in the modern world, various solutions have been proposed to reduce food waste. This paper aspires to simulate the conversion of food waste into glass. The present sample was synthesized with a composition of 45 SiO2 - 27.5 K2CO3 - 27.5 CaO and concerned the techniques of calcination, melt-quenching, and annealing. The chosen batch composition idealizes a likeness to agro-waste, specifically rice husks, eggshells, and banana peels. The sample was defined using an X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), and Simulated Body Fluid (SBF). The XRD indicated crystalline structures, characterizing the sample as a glass-ceramic while the FTIR and SBF corroborated the XRD's structure through its slow bioactivity. The gradual degradation rate can be implicated in the medical sector intended for severe bone trauma.
AB - With environmental issues such as over-consumption becoming prominent in the modern world, various solutions have been proposed to reduce food waste. This paper aspires to simulate the conversion of food waste into glass. The present sample was synthesized with a composition of 45 SiO2 - 27.5 K2CO3 - 27.5 CaO and concerned the techniques of calcination, melt-quenching, and annealing. The chosen batch composition idealizes a likeness to agro-waste, specifically rice husks, eggshells, and banana peels. The sample was defined using an X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), and Simulated Body Fluid (SBF). The XRD indicated crystalline structures, characterizing the sample as a glass-ceramic while the FTIR and SBF corroborated the XRD's structure through its slow bioactivity. The gradual degradation rate can be implicated in the medical sector intended for severe bone trauma.
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U2 - 10.1109/URTC60662.2023.10534932
DO - 10.1109/URTC60662.2023.10534932
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85195456930
T3 - IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference, URTC 2023 - Proceedings
BT - IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference, URTC 2023 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 6 October 2023 through 8 October 2023
ER -