Fabrication of innocuous gold nanoparticles using plant cells in culture.

ABSTRACT: Plant extracts and their different growth phases have been manipulated for the fabrication of nanomaterials, which can be an eco-friendly alternative to the chemical methods that produce hazardous by-products. However, practical difficulties in isolation of the nanoparticles obtained through biological methods and the scanty control that these methods allow over their shapes and sizes impose limitations in their utility. For the first time, we report here a versatile system using cell suspension culture of Medicago sativa, which ensures control over the reaction to regulate size of the particles as well as their easier recovery afterwards. Isolated nanoparticles were characterized for their shape, size and functions. The particles varied in shapes from isodiametric spheres to exotic tetrah

SUBMITTER: Bhaskaran S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6700120 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature