AccScience Publishing / EJMO / Volume 5 / Issue 2 / DOI: 10.14744/ejmo.2021.59602
REVIEW

Silver Nanoparticles – A Review

Amica Panja1 Ashish Kumar Mishra1 Mahesh Dash1 Narendra Kumar Pandey1 Sachin Kumar Singh1 Bimlesh Kumar1
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1 Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India
EJMO 2021, 5(2), 95–102; https://doi.org/10.14744/ejmo.2021.59602
Submitted: 3 April 2021 | Accepted: 4 May 2021 | Published: 10 June 2021
© 2021 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

Demand of silver nanoparticle (AgNPs) is increasing rapidly in many of the streams like in medical, pharmaceutical companies, healthcare, food, consumer, cosmetics etc. Due to its uses it has been used for its several applications like antibacterial properties, household, medical devices, and food industry, wound dressing, in diagnostic, orthopaedics and an anticancer agent. These nano-sized particles are found to be in unique in nature and are also able to change their `physical, chemical and biological property that’s why they can be exploited in for various purposes. Methods for preparation for preparation of AgNPs are physical, chemical and biological. . Out of all three methods biological method is found to be simple, environmental, commercial and single step method and doesn’t need elevated temperature, pressure, force and deadly chemicals. Before application of nanoparticles in any of the purpose like medicine, human welfare, or in healthcare industry, it is very important to characterize the prepared nanoparticles so as to check the safety issue of any of the prepared nanoparticle. Analytical techniques that are used for the analysis of this AgNPs are UV-Vis spectroscopy, XRD, FTIR, DLS, XPS, SEM, TEM, AFM etc. AgNPs have applications like anticancer, antifungal, anti-bacterial, anti-cancer etc.

Keywords
Biological
cancer
diagnosis
nanoparticles
silver nanoparticles
Conflict of interest
None declared.
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