Silica from Natural Sources: a Review on the Extraction and Potential Application as a Supporting Photocatalytic Material for Antibacterial Activity

Silica has become a popular material due to its high abundance and many advantages in various fields. This can be produced synthetically extracted from nature with resultant the application of green production. Therefore, this article deals form silica quartz sand, leaves, agricultural wastes found nature. The extraction process sources would described using thermal, biological, chemical methods. review also highlights potential as photo catalytic antibacterial-supporting discusses role increasing effectiveness process. discussion was continued research on procedure, where synthetic auxiliary materials were compared silica. Furthermore, results obtained indicated that had very good photocatalyst adjunct antibacterial field.