Bioactive Silver Nano Particles

Nanotechnology is an important modern research field and a particle is defined as a small object that behaves as a whole unit in terms of its transport and properties. Silver is a healthy in traditional Chinese and Indian Ayurveda system of medicine. Biological diversity can be thus used as a major resource for biotechnological products and processes, which may be suitable for large scale synthesis. Nowadays, there is a growing need to develop eco-friendly processes, which do not use toxic chemicals in the synthesis protocols. Green synthesis approaches include mixed-valence polyoxometalates, polysaccharides, Tollens, biological, and irradiation method which have advantages over conventional methods involving chemical agents associated with environmental toxicity. The major advantage of using plant extracts for Silver nanoparticles synthesis is that they are easily available, safe, and nontoxic in most cases, have a broad variety of metabolites that can aid in the reduction of silver ions, and are quicker than microbes in the synthesis.

Dr. S. R. Siva Kumar, MSc., M.Phil., Ph.D., currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany, Bharathidasan University, Trichy. He did his Ph.D in Government Arts College, Ariyalur under affiliation to Bharathidasan University. Specialization: Seaweeds-Biometabolites, Tissue Culture, Nanoparticles.