Kumar, Vineet and Yadav , S K (2009) Plant-mediated synthesis of silver and gold nanoparticles and their applications. Journal of Chemical of Technology and Biotechnology, 84 (2). pp. 151-157.

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Abstract

Nanobiotechnology deals with the synthesis of nanostructures using living organisms. Among the use of living organisms for nanoparticle synthesis, plants have found application particularly inmetal nanoparticle synthesis. Use of plants for synthesis of nanoparticles could be advantageous over other environmentally benign biological processes as this eliminates the elaborate process of maintaining cell cultures. Biosynthetic processes for nanoparticles would be more useful if nanoparticles were produced extracellularly using plants or their extracts and in a controlledmanner according to their size, dispersity and shape. Plant use can also be suitably scaled up for large-scale synthesis of nanoparticles. In view of this,we have reviewed here the use of plants or their extracts in the synthesis of silver and gold nanoparticles for various human applications. c 2008 Society of Chemical Industry

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	nanoparticles; plants; applications; biogenic synthesis
Subjects:	Nanotechnology
Divisions:	UNSPECIFIED
Depositing User:	Dr. Aparna Maitra Pati
Date Deposited:	02 Jan 2012 10:15
Last Modified:	13 Feb 2012 04:51
URI:	http://ihbt.csircentral.net/id/eprint/495

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