Effect Of High Energy Ball Milling Grinding On Physico-Chemical, Structural Andmorphological Studies Of Bitter Melon (Momordicacharantia) Nanopowder

Research Article
Aman AK., Singh RK and Kirti M
DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijrsr.2017.0808.0657
Subject: 
science
KeyWords: 
Bitter Melon Powder, Nano powder, XRD, SEM, PL, Magnetism.
Abstract: 

Bitter melon is used as a traditional medicine for several indispositions such as diabetes, abortifacient, anthelmintic, contraceptive, dysmenorrheal, cancer etc. and it mainly comprises of protein, steroid, alkaloid, phenols, lipid, triterpene, and inorganic compounds. Green synthesis method is used to synthesize Bitter melon nanometric size -powder with the use of high energy ball mill equipment. These synthesized nanopowders were then characterized by X-ray diffractometer (XRD), Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) for structural analysis, Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy for chemical nature of bond, UV/VIS/NIR spectrophotometer, Photoluminescence (PL) for electronics structure cum luminescence, Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM) for magnetic behavior. These food powders in nanometric sizemay improve the physicochemical properties of food materials and can be used for biomedical applications as well as in the pharmaceutical industry.