Recent advances in the synthesis of metal nanoparticles (MeNPs), and more specifically
gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), have led to tremendous expansion of their potential …

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) provide excellent platforms for the development of colorimetric
biosensors as they can be easily functionalised, displaying different colours depending on …

Ongoing advances in nanotechnology research have established a variety of methods to
synthesize nanoparticles (NPs) from a diverse range of materials, including metals …

Aggregation appears to be a ubiquitous phenomenon among all nanoparticles and its
influence in mediating cellular uptake and interactions remain unclear. Here we developed …

This paper reports a facile and rapid biosynthesis of silver and gold nanoparticles from
Chenopodium album, an obnoxious weed. The aqueous leaf extract of the herb was used as …

Potential applications of gold nanoparticles in biomedicine have increasingly been reported
on account of the ease of synthesis, bioinert characteristics, optical properties, chemical …

In this paper we have reported the green synthesis of silver (AgNPs) and gold (AuNPs)
nanoparticles by reduction of silver nitrate and chloroauric acid solutions, respectively, using …

Metal nanostructures have unusual physicochemical properties and biological activities
compared to their bulk parent materials. Thus in recent years a number of physical, chemical …

Nanotoxicology studies require investigations of several physico-chemical aspects of the
particle/body fluid interaction, here described by reviewing recent literature in the light of …

At the present time the bioprospective field is a dynamic area of research. The rapid
biosynthesis of silver and gold nanoparticles without using toxic chemicals is reported here …