Development of Statues from Domestic Waste Composites Coated with Carboneus Phosphor Materials

Abstract

Various attempts have been made to solve problems of abundant solid wastes in big cities. One approach is the utilization of domestic waste to make composite materials, such as particle board. To increase the attractiveness of the product in this study we develop prototypes of statues using composites of domestic solid wastes and then coated the statues using carboneus phosphor material to produce artistic color under ultraviolet illumination. The composite materials were derived from domestic waste such as leaves, paper, and plastics as a filler and polyvinil acetate as a matrix. The coated material was a luminescent colloidal carbon particles that have been synthesized from urea ((NH2)2CO) and citric acid (C6H8O7) using a simple heating method. The colloidan carbon emits a luminescence peak at around 457 nm (blue color) under UV illumination. The produced statue from the domectic wastes composites we simply coated by a mixture of epoxy resin and phosphor material. Under UV light, the statue surface shows a bluish white luminescence.