Biogenic pentagonal silver nanoparticles for safer and more effective antibacterial therapeutics.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Biological synthesis of nanomaterials possesses unprecedented potential in the production of nanomaterials due to their ability to produce nanomaterials with improved biocompatibility in addition to eco-friendly synthetic procedures.

Methods

This article reports the isolation of an air-borne fungus from the campus of Integral University, Lucknow, with an exceptional ability to withstand very high concentrations of silver salt. The fungus was found to produce pentagonal silver nanoparticles (AgPgNps) when silver ions were reduced from silver nitrate. Molecular analysis and biochemical characterization techniques based on 18-seconds rRNA identified the fungus to belong to the Aspergillus sp. with the NCBI accession no KF913249. Material characterization techn

SUBMITTER: Khan S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6257132 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature