Synthesis of silver nanoparticles and the antibacterial and anticancer activities of the crude extract of sargassum polycystum C. Agardh

The potential of the methanolic extract of the seaweed, Sargassum polycystum in the synthesis of silver nanoparticles was investigated. The extract synthesized appreciable quantities of silver nanoparticles of the size 5- 7 nm, in 24 hrs. The particles were characterized by UV-Vis, FT-IR spectroscop...

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Main Authors: Nallamuthu Thangaraju, Ramanujam Prasanna Venkatalakshmi, Arulvasu Chinnasamy, Pandian Kannaiyan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tsinghua University Press 2012-06-01
Series:Nano Biomedicine and Engineering
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Online Access:https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.5101/nbe.v3i1.p89-94