Minimizing the Silver Free Ion Content in Starch Coated Silver Nanoparticle Suspensions with Exchange Cationic Resins.

ABSTRACT: This work describes the optimization of a methodology for the reduction of silver ions from silver nanoparticle suspensions obtained from low-yield laboratory procedures. The laboratory synthesis of silver nanoparticles following a bottom-up approach starting from silver nitrate, originates silver ions that were not reduced to their fundamental state for nanoparticles creation at the end of the process. However, it is well known that silver ions can easily influence chemical assays due to their chemical reactivity properties and can limit biological assays since they interfere with several biological processes, namely intracellular ones, leading to the death of living cells or organisms. As such, the presence of silver ions is highly undesirable when conducting biological assays to evaluat

SUBMITTER: Martins CSM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8877803 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature