Indonesia Chimica Acta
Volume 18, No 2: December 2025

New Synthesis Method of AuNPs Using Moringa oleifera Extract as Bioreductor and Potential Study as Colorimetric Microplastic Detection

Thohir, Muhammad Bakhru (Unknown)
Setyaningrum, Dyah (Unknown)
Saputra, Arya Ananda (Unknown)
Nursaida, Marta Citra (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
20 Jan 2026

Abstract

Nanoparticles are multipurpose materials that have been utilized in the medical, energy, and environmental monitoring fields. The advantage of nanoparticles is that they have unique physicochemical properties such as surface area, optical activity, and surface modifiability. One of the important uses of nanoparticles is for environmental monitoring. This is because the surface of nanoparticles could be modified, and with their small size, they could reach analytes in difficult matrices. However, the synthesis of nanoparticles has been an unsustainable process. Therefore, the synthesis of AuNPs using bioreductors finds its urgency. The aim of this research is to determine the optimum conditions for the synthesis of AuNPs-MO, the character of the synthesized AuNPs-MO, and to study the application of AuNPs-MO for monitoring microplastic pollutants. This research was conducted through the stages of extraction, determination of optimum conditions, characterization, and literature study of the potential of AuNPs-MO as a detector. Determination of optimum conditions was carried out by applying variations in pH and precursor-reducing agent ratio. Characterization of AuNPs-MO was done with FTIR and PSA. In addition, microplastic detection models with AuNPs-MO have been obtained directly and indirectly. From this series of experiments, satisfactory results have been obtained.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ica

Publisher

Subject

Chemical Engineering, Chemistry & Bioengineering

Description

Jurnal Akta Kimia Indonesia (Indonesia Chimica Acta) is a peer-reviewed research journal that is devoted to the dissemination of new and original knowledge in all branches of chemistry. The result of research and development in the fields of chemistry in both experimental and theory/ computation, ...