Toxicity of Ag, CuO and ZnO nanoparticles to selected environmentally relevant test organisms and mammalian cells in vitro: a critical review

O Bondarenko, K Juganson, A Ivask, K Kasemets… - Archives of …, 2013 - Springer
Nanoparticles (NPs) of copper oxide (CuO), zinc oxide (ZnO) and especially nanosilver are
intentionally used to fight the undesirable growth of bacteria, fungi and algae. Release of …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular toxicity mechanism of nanosilver

D McShan, PC Ray, H Yu - Journal of food and drug analysis, 2014 - Elsevier
Silver is an ancient antibiotic that has found many new uses due to its unique properties on
the nanoscale. Due to its presence in many consumer products, the toxicity of nanosilver has …

Negligible particle-specific antibacterial activity of silver nanoparticles

Z Xiu, Q Zhang, HL Puppala, VL Colvin, PJJ Alvarez - Nano letters, 2012 - ACS Publications
For nearly a decade, researchers have debated the mechanisms by which AgNPs exert
toxicity to bacteria and other organisms. The most elusive question has been whether the …

Silver nanoparticles: Technological advances, societal impacts, and metrological challenges

B Calderón-Jiménez, ME Johnson… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) show different physical and chemical properties compared to
their macroscale analogs. This is primarily due to their small size and, consequently, the …

Environmental transformations of silver nanoparticles: impact on stability and toxicity

C Levard, EM Hotze, GV Lowry… - Environmental science & …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) readily transform in the environment, which modifies their
properties and alters their transport, fate, and toxicity. It is essential to consider such …

Toxicity of silver nanoparticles—nanoparticle or silver ion?

C Beer, R Foldbjerg, Y Hayashi, DS Sutherland… - Toxicology letters, 2012 - Elsevier
The toxicity of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) has been shown in many publications. Here we
investigated to which degree the silver ion fraction of AgNP suspensions, contribute to the …

Silver nanoparticles in aquatic environments: Physiochemical behavior and antimicrobial mechanisms

C Zhang, Z Hu, B Deng - Water research, 2016 - Elsevier
Nanosilver (silver nanoparticles or AgNPs) has unique physiochemical properties and
strong antimicrobial activities. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the …

Sulfidation of silver nanoparticles: natural antidote to their toxicity

C Levard, EM Hotze, BP Colman, AL Dale… - … science & technology, 2013 - ACS Publications
Nanomaterials are highly dynamic in biological and environmental media. A critical need for
advancing environmental health and safety research for nanomaterials is to identify physical …

Chemical transformation of silver nanoparticles in aquatic environments: Mechanism, morphology and toxicity

W Zhang, B Xiao, T Fang - Chemosphere, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) have been inevitably introduced into ecological
environment during their extensive applications in daily human life. Thermodynamically, Ag …

Nematicidal activity of seaweed-synthesized silver nanoparticles and extracts against Meloidogyne incognita on tomato plants

RY Ghareeb, NGED Shams El-Din, DME Maghraby… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
The purpose of this study was to test the nematicidal activity of extracts of two marine algae
(Colpomenia sinuosa and Corallina mediterranea) and their synthesized silver …