In order to maintain food and materials including drying products at the original dried condition silica gel can be one choice for absorbing moisture. Most silica gel is packed in an Parcel made from plastic which is difficult to naturally degrade thus causing environmental problems. This research therefore have developed packaging material from agricultural waste corn husks for absorbing moisture from food rice. From the study it was found that the corn husk paper had characteristic of smooth paper surface. When making it into a corn fiber Parcel its maximum moisture absorption from saturated humidity was 9.22±0.92% and it could absorb the moisture from the rice stored at room temperature when compared to the plastic sachet at 8.26±0.50% and 9.30±0.08% respectively. When coated with kaffir lime oil extract the corn husk Parcel had the capability in anti-fungus commonly habituated in corn husks up the concentration of 15000 ppm. It could naturally be degraded within 12 days. Therefore with these advantageous qualification the natural Parcel made of corn husk paper harboring silica is for moisture absorption as sustainable and environmental conservation material.

The aim of this work was to synthesis the glass crystals by using silica from rice husk ash (RHA) as a raw material. First rice husk was synthesis by heated at various temperatures between 1000-1200 °C and then silica which was heated at the first step was used to be the raw materials for glass crystal. From the result shows that RHA with heated at 1000-1200 °C could be use for silica to synthesis crystals glass. X-ray Diffraction pattern demonstrated that all of condition to heat RHA showed the same results Cristoballite Tridamite are the phase formation appeared all of materials. The crystal glass show blue colour. The optimum condition with show the highest density and density value were obtain with the sample of heated RHA at 1000 °C

The purpose of this project is analyze to the transparency and mechanical properties of lithium disilicate for dental application. Lithium disilicate glass-ceramic were synthesised by using melting technique in SiO2-Li2O-Al2O3-K2O -P2O5 glass system and heated treatment samples at the crystallization temperature of that glass. The Differential thermal analysis: DTA X-ray diffraction: XRD were used analysis on thermal properties phase formation. Moreoven density Hardness were determined to evaluate the properties at physical and Mechanical respective by the X-ray diffraction showed that the glass-ceramic sample demonstrated the phase of Li2SiO3 Li2Si2O5 and SiO2 . The optimum of glass-ceramic. Sample were on faired with the sample heated 650°c first step and heated at 800°c for second step. That show the highest hardness valve at 755 HV

Silica is an amorphous and nanometer scale voids and porous form of silicon dioxide. As long known for its high specific surface area synthetic silica has been used to adsorb water readily and applied for keeping many biological products dry protecting equipment from moisture damage. In the study the researchers have interested in making the tentative eco-friendly dehumidifying products based on the silica extract from bamboo leaves. The extraction procedures were performed by boiling dry bamboo leaves with various concentrated hydrochloric acid (HCl) at 1 2 3 and 4 M then burning them at 650oC for 4 hr before analyzing the purity of the biosilica with the X-ray Fluorescence Method. The results showed that the highest purity of the biosilica sample at 96% could be obtained after treated with 4 M HCl comparing with the control commercial silica. By hygroscopic test the extracted biosilica with 2 M HCl showed the highest moisture absorption properties close to the commercial silica. While the highest adsorption capacity was found in the biosilica sample treated with 3 M HCl. The dehumidifying efficiencies of all HCl treated biosilica power were not much different comparing to the commercial silica gel. Instead of using synthetic silica therefore this high environmentally friendly and cheaper biosilica from bamboo leaves can preferably be decent and further applied in green industry.

The aim of this work was to study the magnetic properties of magnetic glass-ceramics with composition system SiO2-CaO-Na2O-P2O5-BaO-Fe2O3. The magnetic glass–ceramics were prepared by conventional melting at 1300oC for 2 h of the coprecipitation derived starting products and heat treated at different temperatures. The structure and microstructure of the samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDXA) and scanning electron microscopy. The magnetic measurement showed that the samples which contained barium ferrite exhibited magnetic behavior which is similar to soft magnetic materials. Finally the samples were soaked in simulated body fluid (SBF) for 14 days. The apatite was found to form on the surface layer of glass-ceramics and it increases with the barium ferrite content was increased.