“…However, the silica precursors (TEOS and sodium silicate) are more expansive and less environment-friendly for synthesis of mesoporous silica (Manimaran, Tschentscher, Pandurangan, & Govindasamy, 2023). To address this issue, mesoporous silica was synthesized from various agro-derived sources, such as bamboo leaf ash (Arumugam, Karuppasamy, & Jegadeesan, 2018), rice husk ash (Bhagiyalakshmi, Yun, Anuradha, & Jang, 2010), corn cob ash (Dhaneswara et al, 2022), and stem cane ash (Azizi, Ghasemi, & Yazdani-Sheldarrei, 2013). Bamboo leaf ash (BLA) is a waste material found abundantly in India (Tamil Nadu) without cost of production.…”