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ADVANCED POWDER TECHNOLOGY
Volume 32, Issue 7, Pages 2268-2279Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apt.2021.05.004
Keywords
Common reeds; Green synthesis; AuNPs; Anticancer; Antioxidant; Environmental remediation
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Funding
- UNESCO Young Scientist Research Grant by the Egyptian National MAB Commission
- ERANETMED [3.227]
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This research uses Phragmites australis aqueous extracts to synthesize gold nanoparticles, demonstrating their potential in cytotoxicity, antioxidant activities, and dye removal. It offers an alternative solution for managing the biomass of aquatic plants in aquatic ecosystems.
In this research, we adopt an ecofriendly and sustainable approach to compare the potentiality and efficiency of Phragmites australis aqueous extracts of two different organs to fabricate gold nanoparticles (AuNPs). The aqueous extracts of plant roots and rhizome were used as alternative reducing agents to conventional chemicals. Various Characterization techniques were used; UV-Vis spectroscopy, Zeta potential, Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Selected Area Electron Diffraction (SAED), Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDX), High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy (HRTEM) equipped with elemental mapping in order to confirm the formation of zero-valent AuNPs, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Our results demonstrated that both extracts of Phragmites australis are good candidates for the green-synthesis of AuNPs. Zeta potential was used to confirm the stability of AuNPs. The cytotoxic capacities of both AuNPs samples were validated using MTT assay which proved the inhibition of the growth and proliferation of human lung cancer cells (A549 cell line). Antioxidant potentialities were >10%. The phytosynthesized AuNPs exhibited high capacity in removing methylene blue and methyl orange dyes within just one min. This research offers an alternative solution to manage the accumulated unwanted biomass of a widely distributed aquatic macrophyte in aquatic ecosystems. (c) 2021 The Society of Powder Technology Japan. Published by Elsevier B.V. and The Society of Powder Technology Japan. All rights reserved.
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