TY - JOUR JF - Journal of Cleaner Production VL - 162 Y1 - 2017/// UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85024094840&doi=10.1016%2fj.jclepro.2017.06.010&partnerID=40&md5=24a0d389c342e93269989bc40917d0e6 N1 - cited By 25 A1 - Alnarabiji, M.S. A1 - Yahya, N. A1 - Hamed, Y. A1 - Ardakani, S.E.M. A1 - Mohd Azizi, K.A. A1 - Klemeš, J.J. A1 - Abdullah, B. A1 - Tasfy, S.F.H. A1 - Hamid, S.B.A. A1 - Nashed, O. PB - Elsevier Ltd SP - 186 AV - none N2 - The use of bovine skin gelatin in the synthesis of variety of nanostructures is a bio-friendly approach. In the current study, we investigated experimentally, for the first time, scalable process for production of homogeneous hexagonal zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO-NPs) not only with narrow size distribution and simple process but also cost effective and bio-friendly by green sol-gel method utilizing bovine skin gelatin (BSGB) matrix. Statistical analysis was done to evaluate the reliability of measuring the particle size using X-ray Diffraction analysis (XRD) and/or surface area (BET) instead of High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope (HRTEM) and the following novel points are found. Impressively monodispersed ZnO-NPs with hexagonal structure were synthesized by adjusting the pH. All the samples exhibited hexagonal (wurtzite) crystal shape while the obtained morphology of the particles varies from hexagonal NPs to combination of hexagonal NPs and rod-like particles with reducing the pH from 6 to 2 due to the variation of bloom strength of the gelatin. Long chain gelatin contributed to suppressing the growth of nanoparticle and controlling the morphology. We discovered statistically that there was insignificant difference in measuring the particle size using XRD and HRTEM which can save time, energy, and cost at industrial aspect. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd SN - 09596526 KW - Mammals; Metal nanoparticles; Metals; Nanoparticles; Nanostructures; Particle size; Reliability analysis; Sol-gel process; Sol-gels; Statistical methods; X ray diffraction analysis; Zinc; Zinc oxide; Zinc sulfide KW - Bovine skin; High-resolution transmission electron microscopes; Iso-electric points; Metal oxide nanoparticles; Mono-dispersed; Narrow size distributions; X-ray diffraction analyses (XRD); Zinc oxide nanoparticles KW - Particle size analysis TI - Scalable bio-friendly method for production of homogeneous metal oxide nanoparticles using green bovine skin gelatin ID - scholars8382 EP - 194 ER -