ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BIOSILICA AS BIONANOMATERIAL FROM THE WASTE OF FRUSTULES DIATOM Navicula sp. TAD
Biosilica from frustul diatom Navicula sp. TAD was isolated under optimal conditions by washing with 20% HCl and baking at 600 °C. The treatments successfully removed 78.00 ± 0.514% of impurities from the biosilica during washing, and 93.072 ± 0.347% were further removed after baking. Biosilica Frustule Navicula sp. TAD resulting from HCl washing and burning at 600oC has a whiter silica color. Biosilica was identified by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) at wave numbers 1601, 1062, 962, 799, and 470 cm-1, which were associated with stretching, bending, and vibrational groups of Si-O-Si bonds. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) observations show that the silica frustule nanoporous surface structure can be seen, and the results of Energy Dispersive X-Ray (EDX), silica from Navicula sp. TAD is composed of silicon and oxygen. This shows that silica was obtained from the diatom Navicula sp. TAD. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis shows that the morphology of SiO2 in biosilica is a typical amorphous silica