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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INTERFACE
卷 10, 期 87, 页码 -出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2013.0396
关键词
silver nanoparticles; silver ions; biological impact
资金
- Federal Office of Public Health, Switzerland
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- National Research Program 64
- German Research Foundation [SPP1313]
- Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI) within the National Center of Research (NCCR) in Nanoscale Science
- Adolphe Merkle Foundation
Owing to their antimicrobial properties, silver nanoparticles (NPs) are the most commonly used engineered nanomaterial for use in a wide array of consumer and medical applications. Many discussions are currently ongoing as to whether or not exposure of silver NPs to the ecosystem (i.e. plants and animals) may be conceived as harmful or not. Metallic silver, if released into the environment, can undergo chemical and biochemical conversion which strongly influence its availability towards any biological system. During this process, in the presence of moisture, silver can be oxidized resulting in the release of silver ions. To date, it is still debatable as to whether any biological impact of nanosized silver is relative to either its size, or to its ionic constitution. The aim of this review therefore is to provide a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview-for biologists, chemists, toxicologists as well as physicists-regarding the production of silver NPs, its (as well as in their ionic form) chemical and biochemical behaviours towards/within a multitude of relative and realistic biological environments and also how such interactions may be correlated across a plethora of different biological organisms.
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