Synthesis of silver nanoparticles, influence of capping agents, and dependence on size and shape: A review

CV Restrepo, CC Villa - Environmental Nanotechnology, Monitoring & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Silver nanoparticles have demonstrated a wide range of applications derived from shape
and size control which is a crucial factor to improve antimicrobial, physical, and chemical …

Antimicrobial silver nanomaterials

K Zheng, MI Setyawati, DT Leong, J Xie - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistance is considered as one of the greatest health threats worldwide, and we
are in a staring competition with microbes as antibiotic resistance mounts faster than our …

Inorganic and metal nanoparticles and their antimicrobial activity in food packaging applications

M Hoseinnejad, SM Jafari… - Critical reviews in …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Nanotechnology has revolutionized almost all the fields of science and technology,
particularly the food packaging industry. Accordingly, some nanoparticles can be used in …

Cyclodextrin-based nanostructures

G Narayanan, J Shen, I Matai, A Sachdev, R Boy… - Progress in Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cyclodextrins (CDs) are a unique class of molecules that are naturally available via
degradation of starchy molecules. Their toroidal structure and abundant presence of …

Nanobio silver: its interactions with peptides and bacteria, and its uses in medicine

S Eckhardt, PS Brunetto, J Gagnon, M Priebe… - Chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Silver, known in metallic form since antiquity, has very early been recognized by mankind for
its antimicrobial properties, a phenomenon observed, for example, in the context of drinking …

Topical application of zinc oxide nanoparticles reduces bacterial skin infection in mice and exhibits antibacterial activity by inducing oxidative stress response and cell …

R Pati, RK Mehta, S Mohanty, A Padhi… - … , Biology and Medicine, 2014 - Elsevier
Here we studied immunological and antibacterial mechanisms of zinc oxide nanoparticles
(ZnO-NPs) against human pathogens. ZnO-NPs showed more activity against …

An investigation on the antibacterial, cytotoxic, and antibiofilm efficacy of starch-stabilized silver nanoparticles

S Mohanty, S Mishra, P Jena, B Jacob, B Sarkar… - … , Biology and Medicine, 2012 - Elsevier
The increased emergence of drug resistant microbes creates a major challenge to the
scientific community for successful development of effective therapeutics. The antimicrobial …

Effects of wound dressing based on the combination of silver@ curcumin nanoparticles and electrospun chitosan nanofibers on wound healing

C Liu, Y Zhu, X Lun, H Sheng, A Yan - Bioengineered, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Healing of various skin wounds is a lengthy process and often combined with bacterial
infection and scar formation. Biomimetic electrospun nanofibrous wound dressing loaded …

Overcoming multidrug resistance in bacteria through antibiotics delivery in surface-engineered nano-cargos: Recent developments for future nano-antibiotics

X Yang, W Ye, Y Qi, Y Ying, Z Xia - Frontiers in bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In the recent few decades, the increase in multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria has reached
an alarming rate and caused serious health problems. The incidence of infections due to …

In vitro and in vivo evaluation of biologically synthesized silver nanoparticles for topical applications: effect of surface coating and loading into hydrogels

AI Mekkawy, MA El-Mokhtar, NA Nafady… - International journal …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
In the present study, silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) were synthesized via biological reduction
of silver nitrate using extract of the fungus Fusarium verticillioides (green chemistry …