Antibacterial Effect of Silver Nanoparticles Produced by Fungal Process on Textile Fabrics and Their Effluent Treatment

By N. Durán, P. Marcato, Gabriel I. H. De Souza, O. L. Alves, E. Esposito. 2007

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry

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• Size- and Shape-Dependent Antibacterial Studies of Silver Nanoparticles Synthesized by Wet Chemical Routes (2016, background): “Surprisingly, AgNPs are safe and non-toxic to human and animal cells at low concentrations because the possible toxicity of AgNPs to the environment is considered extremely low as compared to other materials [14,15].”
• Synthesis and applications of silver nanoparticles (2010, background): “The cotton fibers containing AgNPs exhibited high anti- bacterial activity against Escherichia coli (Yeo et al., 2003; Duran et al., 2007; Chen and Chiang, 2008).”
• Biological Synthesis of Metallic Nanoparticles by Bacteria, Fungi andPlants (2014, background): “Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) have been shown in numerous studies to display antibacterial properties [8-11].”
• Biosynthesis of Silver Nanoparticles (2014, background): “and posses low toxicity to human cells, high thermal stability and low volatility (Duran et al., 2007).”
• Green synthesized ZnO nanoparticles against bacterial and fungal pathogens (2012, background): “As, nanosilver has been used for imparting antibacterial properties ([27,13]), nano-TiO2 and the oxides of other nano-materials like CdO and ZnO have also been reported for antibacterial properties ([56,15,33,6,53,50,16]).”
• A review on biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles and their biocidal properties (2018, background): “It has been reported that silver ions are reduced extracellularly in the presence of fungi to generate stable Ag NPs in water [214, 216].”
• Silver nanoparticles – a material of the future…? (2016, background): “The authors report that silver nanoparticles coating of nylon fibres used for making floor coverings helps to secure them against odors and the growth of pathogenic microorganisms [70].”
• The ecotoxicology of nanoparticles and nanomaterials: current status, knowledge gaps, challenges, and future needs (2008, background): “Similarly, knowledge of the ecotoxicology of NPs to bacteria and other microbes is limited, even though some manufactured NPs have been designed as cleaning agents with antibacterial properties (e.g., titanium and silver NPs, Fu et al. 2005; Duran et al. 2007).”