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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 457, Issue -, Pages 329-338Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2015.07.012
Keywords
Green synthesis; Silver nanoparticles; Anticancer activity; Antimicrobial activity; Skin cancer; Phytochemical; Dynamic light scattering; Zeta potential; FTIR; Fe-SEM
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- National Institute of Technology, Rourkela
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Hypothesis: Biological synthesis of silver nanoparticles is a cost effective natural process where the phytochemicals specifically phenols, flavonoids and terpenoids present in the plant extracts act as capping and reducing agent. Due to their nano size regime the silver nanoparticles may directly bind to the DNA of the pathogenic bacterial strains leading to higher antimicrobial activity. Experiment: In the current study silver nanoparticles were synthesised using plant extracts from different origin Cucurbita maxima (petals), Moringa oleifera (leaves) and Acorus calamus (rhizome). The synthesised nanoparticles were characterized by UV-visible spectroscopy, dynamic light scattering (DLS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy (Fe-SEM) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). Finding: Highly crystalline, roughly spherical and cuboidal silver nanoparticles of 30-70 nm in size were synthesised. The nanoparticles provided strong antimicrobial activity against pathogenic strains. The effect of the synthesised nanoparticles against A431 skin cancer cell line was tested for their toxicity by 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-y1)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MU) dye. The IC50 values of 82.39 +/- 3.1, 83.57 +/- 3.9 and 78.58 +/- 2.7 mu g/ml were calculated for silver nanoparticles synthesised by C. maxima, M. oleifera and A. calamus respectively. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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