Sorption analysis of composites based on zinc oxide for catalysis and medical materials science published by Ural Federal University eISSN 2411-1414; chimicatechnoacta.ru LETTER 2022, vol. 9(4), No. 20229422 DOI: 10.15826/chimtech.2022.9.4.22 1 of 6 Sorption analysis of composites based on zinc oxide for catalysis and medical materials science Evgeniya Maraeva a * , Dmitriy Radaykin a, Anton Bobkov a , Nikita Permiakov a, Vasily Matveev b , Alexander Maximov a, Vyacheslav Moshnikov a a: Department of Micro- and Nanoelectronics, Saint-Petersburg Electrotechnical University «LETI», Saint-Petersburg 197022, Russia b: Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute named by B.P. Konstantinov, NRC «Kurchatov Institute», Gatchina 188300, Russia * Corresponding author: jenvmar@mail.ru This paper belongs to a Regular Issue. © 2022, the Authors. This article is published in open access under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Abstract Modified structures based on zinc oxide are of special interest in ca- talysis and medicine. The work discusses the composite structures based on zinc oxide and hydroxyapatite, as well as silver-modified zinc oxide nanostructures obtained by chemical deposition. The ob- tained materials were studied using a Rigaku SmartLab diffractomet- ric complex and a Sorbi MS sorption analyzer. The specific surface area was studied and the average size of nanoparticles in the sam- ples is determined. The application scope of the considered materials was catalysis and medicine, including the use in bone engineering as bioactive coatings deposited on the surface of a metal bioimplant. Keywords zinc oxide hydroxyapatite adsorption specific surface area catalysis Received: 19.10.22 Revised: 10.11.22 Accepted: 12.11.22 Available online: 22.11.22 Key findings ● Silver-modified zinc oxide nanostructures and nanocomposites based on zinc oxide and hydroxyap- atite were obtained via chemical deposition method. ● The specific surface area was 5–20 m2/g, the nanoparticle sizes were 60–260 nm, depending on the synthesis features. ● The use of silver nanoparticles leads to a decrease in the specific surface area of zinc oxide modified with silver and increases the rate of photocatalytic decomposition. 1. Introduction Zinc oxide is considered to be one of the most important semiconductor photocatalysts due to its high photosensi- tivity and good chemical stability [1]. The synthesis of this material can be carried out using the hydrothermal meth- od, the homogeneous precipitation, the sol-gel method and other known methods. One of the disadvantages of zinc oxide is a wide band gap (3.2–3.3 eV), due to which the material absorbs light only in the near UV region. Unfortunately, metal oxide semiconductors use only 5% of the solar spectrum range [2, 3]. Thus, the efficient use of solar energy remains a challenge in photocatalytic applications of zinc oxide. The main mechanism of photocatalysis includes the ex- citation of the ZnO band gap by photons, resulting in the generation of exciton pairs with holes in the valence band and electrons in the conduction band. These charge carri- ers may recombine, dissipating energy as heat, or may interact with pre-adsorbed electron donors/acceptors on the catalyst surface. Further, donors/acceptors initiate redox reactions with organic pollutants and destroy them. It should be noted that the intensity of the photocatalysis process is affected by the size of the ZnO crystallite. Small particle size leads to a high specific surface area, which improves the ability to absorb photons and increases the probability of adsorption of dye molecules on the surface, and also leads to the suppression of exciton binding [4]. To improve the photocatalytic efficiency of zinc oxide, colloidal quantum dots of semiconductor materials are de- posited on its surface, which inject charge carriers upon irradiation in the visible spectral range [5]; plasmonic na- noparticles [6] (including in the form of dendrites [7]) can also be deposited. The other ways are to change the mor- http://chimicatechnoacta.ru/ https://doi.org/10.15826/chimtech.2022.9.4.22 mailto:jenvmar@mail.ru http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0000-7953 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0209-9273 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9079-3363 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6500-5492 https://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog/?doi=https://doi.org/10.15826/chimtech.2022.9.4.22&domain=pdf&date_stamp=2022-11-22 Chimica Techno Acta 2022, vol. 9(4), No. 20229422 LETTER 2 of 6 phology [8] or to change the concentration of intrinsic de- fects on the surface by special alloying [9]. High-energy electron beams [10], plasma chemistry [11], mechanical activation [12, 13], and other energy effects are used as modifying techniques. A special technological direction is the creation of nanocomposites with desired properties of heterojunctions and energy levels at interfaces [14]. In addition, the LSPR (local surface plasmonic reso- nance) effect is worth mentioning. This effect occurs as a result of the modification by nanoparticles (NPs) of noble metals (Ag and Au) [15, 16]. LSPR affects the mechanism of charge separation at the metal-semiconductor interface. As a result, an increase in the lifetime of photoinduced electron-hole pairs is observed. Reducing the probability of recombination has a positive effect on the generation of highly active radicals on the catalyst surface. This feature attracts the attention of researchers to the development of plasmonic photocatalysts [17]. Another important area of zinc oxide application – de- velopments in the field of medical materials science – is also associated with heterosystems [18, 19]. In dental ap- plications, the leading positions are occupied by hydroxy- apatite (HA) and composite materials based on it. While the properties of hydroxyapatite as a biocompatible mate- rial that is an analogue of bone tissue are widely known and have been studied in detail, the problem of bacterial and microbial effects when using such structures in prac- tice remains unresolved. To improve the antibacterial properties of hydroxyapatite, its combinations with zinc and its oxide are used. Thus, in [20], the results of the studies of the biocom- patibility and antibacterial properties of multiphase nano- composite materials based on HA:ZnO, which were syn- thesized using calcium nitrate tetrahydrate, ammonium hydrogen phosphate, aqueous ammonia, zinc nitrate hexa- hydrate, and calcium chloride, are presented. The antimi- crobial activity of the samples was assessed on test cultures of gram-negative bacteria (E. coli, P. aeruginosa) and gram- positive bacteria (S. aureus and S. epidermidis). Mouse fi- broblast cells were used for biocompatibility testing and cytotoxicity evaluation. It was shown that the synthesized nanocomposite material has a multiphase nanoscale archi- tecture, where ZnO nanocrystals are represented by two lattices: cubic and hexagonal. The studied composite demonstrates a high antibacterial activity due to the inclu- sion of ZnO particles in the hydroxyapatite powder. In [21], composites based on polycaprolactone, hydrox- yapatite and zinc oxide were studied at various mass frac- tions of zinc oxide. The antimicrobial activity of the ob- tained scaffolds was shown with a gradual increase in an- timicrobial efficiency with increasing ZnO concentration (optimally at 15 and 30% ZnO in the composition). Such composites may be ideal for achieving optimal biocompat- ibility (cell proliferation, biomineralization and antimi- crobial capacity) and mechanical stability, making them a promising biomaterial for bone tissue regeneration. In [22], HA/ZnO nanorod composite coatings were fab- ricated on Si substrates. ZnO nanorods were first grown on a substrate by a hydrothermal method, and then a solu- tion of Ca and P precursors was deposited on the surface by centrifugation and fired to form composite coatings of the HA/ZnO nanorods. The wettability of the surface of such a coating can be controlled by ultraviolet treatment, changing from rather hydrophobic to hydrophilic. Such coatings showed a different adsorption capacity of the protein for both the ZnO nanorod coating and the HA coat- ing. The desired ability to release Zn ions was also ob- served. Such coatings can potentially be applied as bioac- tive coatings to the surface of a metal bioimplant. The aim of [23] was to create a platform with optimal physicochemical properties and photocatalytic activity for the delivery of the standard chemotherapeutic drug doxo- rubicin. In [24], a highly sensitive and selective sensor with a carbon-modified electrode based on the “hydroxy- apatite-ZnO-Pd” composite was made for the simultaneous determination of arbutin and vitamin C. Let us consider in more detail the reason for the in- creased interest in zinc oxide as an antibacterial compo- nent of composite structures. The work [25] describes the antibacterial properties of zinc and its oxide. Zinc is one of the most widespread mineral elements in hard tissues; this element plays various physiological roles in the im- mune system, and is also involved in cell division and growth. Zinc oxide (ZnO) has unique optical-electrical and chemical properties. ZnO promotes bone tissue regenera- tion, and also has antimicrobial activity with enhanced mechanical properties. ZnO nanoparticles have three characteristic mechanisms of antimicrobial action, mainly through the generation of reactive oxygen species, attack on the nucleus and protein, and destruction of the cell wall. These modes of action differ from the mechanism of microbial resistance formation, i.e. isolation, drug modifi- cation, target modification, and enzyme deactivation. Therefore, zinc oxide nanoparticles are considered to be the most suitable nanoantibiotics for bacteria resistant to other antibiotics. It is important to note that the antimicrobial activity of ZnO depends on the particle size, which in turn regulates the internalization of Zn2+. At present, sorption methods of analysis, including the method of thermal nitrogen desorption (NTD), are widely used to characterize the porous structure parameters of nanomaterials for a wide range of functional purposes. NTD belongs to the group of non-destructive techniques that provide express analysis of such parameters of nano- materials as specific surface area, average particle size, mesopore size distribution, and presence or absence of micropores in the system [26]. The aim of this work was to obtain composite struc- tures based on zinc oxide and hydroxyapatite, as well as zinc oxide with silver additives, to study their phase com- position, specific surface area and nanoparticle size. Chimica Techno Acta 2022, vol. 9(4), No. 20229422 LETTER 3 of 6 2. Experimental In this work, the samples of zinc oxide obtained by chemical deposition with the addition of silver nanoparticles, as well as a series of samples of "zinc oxide – hydroxyapatite" (HA:ZnO) composites were chosen as the objects under study. For the tasks of photocatalysis, zinc oxide powders were synthesized with and without the participation of a surface-active agent (SAA) sodium dodecyl sulfate. 2.1. Synthesis without SAA Zinc acetate was dissolved in an aqueous medium with a volume of 25 ml to obtain the aqueous solution of 0.1 M. Then a sodium hydroxide solution of 0.2 M was prepared (25 ml). The solution with zinc acetate was stirred at 950 rpm, and the solution with NaOH was poured into it. As a result, the solution became turbid. Next, the final so- lution with a volume of 50 ml was heated to 100 °C and kept at this temperature for 1 hour. The finished product (precipitate) was separated from the solution by centrifu- gation and used in photocatalysis. 2.2. Synthesis with SAA The technique is similar to the previous one, the differ- ences are as follows: together with a portion of zinc ace- tate, a portion of surfactant 0.01 M was added; after cen- trifugation, the powder was washed 7 times before being examined in photocatalysis. Using the sodium hydroxide precipitation method, the following samples were synthesized: 1) ZnO without the addition of SAA and Ag NPs (pure zinc oxide); 2) ZnO without SAA, but with the addition of Ag NPs; 3) ZnO with the addition of SAA, without Ag NPs; 4) ZnO with the addition of SAA and Ag NPs: 5) ZnO with the addition of SAA and Ag NPs with ag- glomeration of silver nanoparticles. The difference between samples 4 and 5 is a result of heating the solution with zinc acetate and surfactant dur- ing the addition of Ag NPs. Upon heating and adding the particles, the color of the solution changed from yellow to red, and the nanoparticles underwent agglomeration. In order to exclude this process in the future, the nanoparti- cles were added to the solution at room temperature. The silver nanoparticles were synthesized by the cit- rate method using silver nitrate (AgNO3); sodium citrate (Na3C6H5O7) and deionized water as a solvent. 2.3. Preparation of HA:ZnO composites The initial powders of hydroxyapatite for the composites were obtained by chemical deposition with the use of mi- crowave radiation. The details of the synthesis are report- ed in [27]. To obtain zinc oxide, the technology described in [28] was taken, where to synthesize zinc oxide 0.5 ml of 0.5 M zinc nitrate solution (Zn(NO3)2·6H2O was mixed with 30 ml distilled water containing 0.5 g of cetyl- trimethyl-ammoniumbromide (CTAB), followed by adding 5 ml of NaOH solution. The concentration of the NaOH solu- tion was estimated on the assumption of [Zn2+]:[OH–]=1:10 ratio. The solution was mixed in an ultrasonic bath (100 W), vigorously stirred for 5 minutes and transferred to the thermostat (90 °C) for 2 hours. The products were collected by centrifugation and washed 3 times in distilled water. ZnO powder was then dried at 80 °C and annealed at 350 °C for 20 minutes. The initial powders of hydroxyapatite and zinc oxide were mechanically mixed and subjected to manual press- ing using a mold with a diameter of 7 mm. As a result of pressing, a series of tablets with a height of about 1100 μm was obtained. 2.4. Research methods The phase composition was studied using a Rigaku SmartLab (Cu Kα) diffractometric complex. The X-ray dif- fraction patterns were taken in the quasi-parallel beam mode in the angle range 2θ = 10–80° with a step Δ(2θ) = 0.02°. The sorption characteristics of the composites were studied using a Sorbi MS device (Russia, Novosibirsk). The output signal is a desorption peak, the area of which is pro- portional to the volume of adsorbed/desorbed gas. To recal- culate the peak area into the volume of adsorbed gas, pre- selected coefficients were used. The calibration coefficients were obtained in the study of standard samples with known specific surface area. In this work, the standard sample with a specific surface area SBET = 106 m2/g was used to calibrate the device. The data analysis was carried out ac- cording to the results of processing the desorption peaks, taking into account the selected calibration coefficients. As part of the work, a series of adsorption isotherms was studied in the range of relative partial pressures of adsorbate gas (nitrogen) P/Po 0–20%, the specific surface area of each composite was determined by the standard Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) method, and the average par- ticle size in the sample was estimated. The average particle size was estimated using the data on the specific surface area and density according to the method described in [26]. 3. Results and Discussion Figure S1 shows the X-ray diffraction pattern of the zinc oxide powder used to create the HA:ZnO composites. Figure S2 shows the X-ray diffraction pattern of the HA:ZnO (1:1) composite. When studying the composition of the the HA:ZnO structures, the presence of lines related to the phases HA (ICCD: 01-074-0565), ZnO (ICCD: 01-076-0704) and, in some cases, calcium carbonate CaCO3 (ICCD: 01- 086-2339) was found. The X-ray diffraction patterns ob- tained when examining the tablets from different angles differ in the intensity ratio of the ZnO and HA+CaCO3 peaks. We assume that calcium carbonate CaCO3 could be formed as a result of the interaction of hydroxyapatite and the un- reacted residue of hexamethylenetetramine C6H12N4 or pol- Chimica Techno Acta 2022, vol. 9(4), No. 20229422 LETTER 4 of 6 yvinylpyrrolidone, which were used to synthesize zinc oxide by the method [28]. Figure 1 shows parts of adsorption isotherms obtained by studying the processes of nitrogen thermal desorption on the initial powders of hydroxyapatite and zinc oxide, and on one of the composites after pressing (in this exam- ple, the mixing of the initial components occurred in equal proportions). As it can be seen from Figure 1, the values of the volume of adsorbed gas recorded in the study of the composite after pressing are several times lower than those for the initial powders. Accordingly, the registered specific surface area SBET of the composites of the entire series turned out to be ex- pectedly lower than the specific surface area of the initial hydroxyapatite and zinc oxide used for mixing (Table 1). Figure 2 shows a scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image of the hydroxyapatite surface before pressing (sample 1). As it can be seen from the Figure 2, the surface of the powder is represented by agglomerates about 2 μm in size, consisting of a set of nanorods. We believe that the presence of large agglomerates deter- mines the low specific surface area shown in Table 1. Table 1 shows that, after pressing the specific surface area of all the composites expectedly decreases, and the size of the particles in the composites in tablets increases. It should be noted that when mixing and pressing a mate- rial of lower mass, the specific surface area is 2 times higher (sample HA:ZnO (1:1)). Table 2 presents the results of studying the specific surface area (SBET) and the dye photodegradation rate related to the specific surface area (V) of a series of zinc oxide samples synthesized for catalysis. Figure 1 Plots of adsorption isotherms of the initial powders and the HAP:ZnO (1:1) composite. Table 1 The specific surface area of the initial powders and the composites after pressing. Sample SBET, m2/g D, nm HA 9 191 ZnO 16 66 HA:ZnO (1:1) 5.3 258 HA:ZnO (1:3) 5.7 212 HA:ZnO (1:1) (lower mass) 9.9 138 The specific surface area of pure zinc oxide, SBET, ex- ceeds the specific surface area of the sample modified with silver nanoparticles by a factor of 3 (samples 1 and 2), but, at the same time, the dye photodegradation rate related to the specific surface area (V) for sample 1 is 3.8 times lower than that for sample 2. For the samples obtained in the presence of SAA, the specific surface area turned out to be somewhat lower than expected, most likely due to the presence of residual mole- cules of sodium dodecyl sulfate on the surface. These mole- cules cover the surface, and the gas (N2) cannot be adsorbed by the entire surface area, so the data are underestimated. To remove surfactants from the surface, drying was under- taken at a temperature of 250 °C for an hour, which led to an increase in the specific surface area by 2–3 m2/g. To obtain more reliable values of the specific surface of photo- catalysts synthesized in the presence of surfactants, it was necessary to anneal the powder at 250 °C for 2–3 hours. Analyzing the decomposition rates for the samples syn- thesized in the presence of SSA, we noted a positive effect of precipitated Ag NPs on the activity of the catalysts: the dye photodegradation rate for sample 5 increased by a factor of 2.75 compared to this parameter for sample 3. It is known [4] that the intensity of the process of photocatalytic decomposition is affected by the size of the ZnO crystallite. Therefore, one of the objectives of the study was to determine the average sizes of nanopar- ticles in powder catalysts. Figure 2 SEM image of the initial powder of HAP. Table 2 The results of the study of the specific surface area and activity of the ZnO powder catalysts. Sample SBET, m2/g V, μmol/h 1 12 0.046 2 4 0.173 3 9.5 0.113 4 10 0.213 5 19 0.311 Chimica Techno Acta 2022, vol. 9(4), No. 20229422 LETTER 5 of 6 Using the specific surface area values obtained from the Sorbi device and the density of the test material, an approximate calculation of the size of the catalyst parti- cles can be made. The average size of the particles for sample 1 is 88 nm, for sample 2 – 272 nm, for sample 3 – 107 nm, for sample 4 – 108 nm, and for sample 5 – 59 nm. Analyzing samples 4 and 5, it can be noted that the coarsening of silver nanoparticles during synthesis leads to the coarsening of ZnO aggregates. The band gap value of a series of samples for catalysis was determined from the estimates of the absorption spectra. For pure zinc oxide it was 3.37 eV; for the sam- ple modified only with silver – 3.33 eV. The sample syn- thesized with the participation of surfactants and modi- fied with silver nanoparticles showed a band gap value of 3.35 eV. 4. Conclusions The results of studying the specific surface area of zinc oxide modified with silver nanoparticles in the presence and absence of a surfactant made it possible to select the conditions necessary for the removal of surfactants and evaluate the efficiency of using Ag nanoparticles to in- crease the activity of the zinc oxide surface during cata- lytic decomposition. For the composites based on zinc oxide and hydroxy- apatite, sorption analysis methods made it possible to evaluate the changes that occurred in the powders after pressing in terms of nanoparticle sizes and specific sur- face area. According to the literature sources analysis, the considered composite structures demonstrate a high antibacterial activity and can be a promising biomaterial with improved mechanical and antibacterial properties. It should be noted that the size estimate will be valid for cases when the particles that make up the composite are the same in size and do not have pores. If the parti- cles in the initial powder are in the form of nanorods, the size analysis should be carried out taking into account the data on the aspect ratio of the nanorods. Supplementary materials Supplementary materials are available. Funding This work was supported by the Russian Science Founda- tion (grant no. 22-29-20162), https://rscf.ru/project/22- 29-20162/ with the St. Petersburg Science Foundation (agreement No. 19/2022 dated April 14 2022). Acknowledgments The authors are grateful to Khalugarova Kamilya for assis- tance in obtaining composites based on hydroxyapatite and zinc oxide by pressing and to Arina Zaikina (TESCAN) for SEM data. Author contributions Conceptualization: E.M, V.M1. Data curation: N.P. Funding acquisition: N.P, E.M, A.B. Investigation: E.M, V.M2, D.R. Project administration: N.P. Supervision: V.M1. Validation: A.B, N.P, A.M, V.M2. Writing – original draft: E.M, N.P, D.R. Writing – review & editing: A.M, V.M1. Conflict of interest The authors declare no conflict of interest. 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