Manikandan M

Department of Design and Automation

School of Mechanical Engineering

Vellore Campus

Prabu M

Kandasamy P

Kalaivani P.R

Rajendiran N

Raja T.

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Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) is a private university located in&nbsp;Tamil Nadu, India. Founded in 1984, as Vellore Engineering College, the institution offers 20 undergraduate, 34 postgraduate, four integrated and four research programs. It has campuses in Vellore, Amravati, Bhopal and Chennai.

VIT is one of the top ranked private universities in India according to NIRF, THE and QS Rankings.&nbsp;Govt. of India has recognized&nbsp;VIT, Vellore as an&nbsp;Institution of Eminence. This has allowed VIT to take independent quality initiatives and move up in world ranking.

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MgO nanoparticles (NPs) were successfully fabricated by a facile, inexpensive and green synthesis protocol using soluble starch as a green bio-template. The influence of calcination temperature on its textural properties and catalytic efficiency has been investigated in detail. The enhancement of MgO NPs crystallinity by increasing the calcination temperature is found from X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analyses. N2-sorption studies and CO2-temperature programmed desorption (TPD) measurements revealed that the MgO NPs calcined at 500 °C have superior textural properties and strong surface basicity. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis conferred that the MgO-500 NPs furnished the optimized surface Lewis sites, consequently outperforms better transesterification activity. The fabricated MgO-500 NPs exhibited an excellent catalytic activity towards the efficient conversion of glycerol to glycerol carbonate (GC) with more than 93% selectivity. The intelligibility of the adopted synthesis is eco-benign and wide utility as a solid base catalyst for several organic transformations. © 2019 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim

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