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MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING C-MATERIALS FOR BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
Volume 46, Issue -, Pages 463-469Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2014.10.069
Keywords
Nyctanthes arbortristis; Spectroscopy; Crystal growth of silver nanoparticles; FTIR; Electron microscopy; Nanocrystalline materials; Antibacterial; Cell viability
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- DBT, Government of India
- Institutional Biotech Hub
- Centre for the Environment, IIT Guwahati [BT/04/NE/2009]
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Here we report the synthesis of silver nanoparticles using ethanolic flower extract of Nyctanthes arbortristis, UVvisible spectra and TEM indicated the successful formation of silver nanoparticles. Crystalline nature of the silver nanoparticles was confirmed by X-ray diffraction. Fourier Transform Infra-Red Spectroscopy analysis established the capping of the synthesized silver nanoparticles with phytochemicals naturally occurring in the ethanolic flower extract of N. arbortristis. The synthesized silver nanoparticles showed antibacterial activity against the pathogenic strain of Escherichia coli MTCC 443. Furthermore, cytotoxicity of the silver nanoparticles was tested on mouse fibroblastic cell line (1929) and found to be non-toxic, which thus proved their biocompatibility. Antibacterial activity and cytotoxicity assay carried out in this study open up an important perspective of the synthesized silver nanoparticles. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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