Plant and microbial approaches as green methods for the synthesis of nanomaterials: synthesis, applications, and future perspectives

NS Alsaiari, FM Alzahrani, A Amari, H Osman… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
The unique biological and physicochemical characteristics of biogenic (green-synthesized)
nanomaterials (NMs) have attracted significant interest in different fields, with applications in …

Green synthesis of metallic nanoparticles and their prospective biotechnological applications: an overview

SS Salem, A Fouda - Biological trace element research, 2021 - Springer
The green synthesis of nanoparticles (NPs) using living cells is a promising and novelty tool
in bionanotechnology. Chemical and physical methods are used to synthesize NPs; …

Metal-based nanoparticles as antimicrobial agents: an overview

E Sánchez-López, D Gomes, G Esteruelas, L Bonilla… - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Metal-based nanoparticles have been extensively investigated for a set of biomedical
applications. According to the World Health Organization, in addition to their reduced size …

Microbial nano-factories: synthesis and biomedical applications

S Ghosh, R Ahmad, M Zeyaullah, SK Khare - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In the recent times, nanomaterials have emerged in the field of biology, medicine,
electronics, and agriculture due to their immense applications. Owing to their nanoscale …

Potentialities of bioinspired metal and metal oxide nanoparticles in biomedical sciences

KRB Singh, V Nayak, J Singh, AK Singh, RP Singh - RSC advances, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
To date, various reports have shown that metallic gold bhasma at the nanoscale form was
used as medicine as early as 2500 BC in India, China, and Egypt. Owing to their unique …

Green synthesis of metallic nanoparticles via biological entities

M Shah, D Fawcett, S Sharma, SK Tripathy… - Materials, 2015 - mdpi.com
Nanotechnology is the creation, manipulation and use of materials at the nanometre size
scale (1 to 100 nm). At this size scale there are significant differences in many material …

[HTML][HTML] A review on biogenic synthesis of gold nanoparticles, characterization, and its applications

S Menon, S Rajeshkumar, V Kumar - Resource-Efficient Technologies, 2017 - Elsevier
The nano-sized particles make an imprint on us in our daily lives and it has great importance
in the numerous fields of biotechnology like the food industry, medical and industrial field …

Biosynthesis, characterization and antibacterial activity of copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO NPs) from actinomycetes

MI Nabila, K Kannabiran - Biocatalysis and agricultural biotechnology, 2018 - Elsevier
The aim of the present study was actinomycetes mediated biosynthesis of copper oxide
nanoparticles (CuO NPs) and evaluation of its antibacterial activity against selected human …

State of the art in gold nanoparticle synthesis

P Zhao, N Li, D Astruc - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
General principles and recent developments in the synthesis of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs)
are reviewed. The “in situ” Turkevich-Frens and Brust-Schiffrin methods are still major …

A review on the biosynthesis of metallic nanoparticles (gold and silver) using bio-components of microalgae: Formation mechanism and applications

PD Shankar, S Shobana, I Karuppusamy… - Enzyme and microbial …, 2016 - Elsevier
The synthesis of nanoparticles (NP) using algae has been underexploited and even
unexplored. In recent times, there are few reports on the synthesis of NP using algae, which …