OBTAINING AND STUDYING THE STRUCTURE OF COPPER NANOPARTICLES IN GUM ARABIC CONDITION

Abstract

Gum arabic is one of the most important representatives of the natural class of polysaccharides. Widely used in medicine, cosmetics, food and pharmaceutical industries. In this work, copper nanoparticles were immobilized on the surface of a natural polymer, gum arabic. The resulting compound was synthesized using the crosslinking agent glutaraldehyde. Gum arabic matrices were prepared using two types of cross-linking agents. The first option is the immobilization of copper nanoparticles on crosslinked gum arabic, the second is the immobilization of copper nanoparticles on gum arabic matrices. The composite material was studied by physical methods: IR-Fourier and X-ray diffraction analysis.