Efficient Rice-Husk-Derived Silica Nanocatalysts for Organic Dye Removal from Water

Rice is the second most extensively consumed food ingredient, and its by-products in paddy field include rice husk straw. ash, resulting from burning, considered an environment menace, inducing negative effects on area which it disposed of. In this study, was applied as a silicate source to obtain mesoporous silica material. Characterization techniques confirmed well-ordered mesophase resemblance of ash with one obtained conventional sources. The material further used catalyst support. catalysts were for rhodamine 110 oxidation, proving high potential oxidizing hazardous organic compounds, such dyes water, environmentally harmless products.