Research Article
Green Tea as Biological System for the Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles
Walaa Fikry Elbossaty*Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry Division, Faculty of Science, Damietta University, Damietta, Egypt
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Department of Chemistry
Biochemistry Division, Faculty of Science
Damietta University, Damietta, Egypt
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Received date: July 06, 2017; Accepted date: August 21, 2017; Published date: August 28, 2017
Citation: Elbossaty WF (2017) Green Tea as Biological System for the Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles. J Biotechnol Biomater 7:269. doi:10.4172/2155-952X.1000269
Copyright: © 2017 Elbossaty WF. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Abstract
Silver nanoparticles (Ag-NP) are being used increasingly in wound dressings, catheters and various household products due to their antimicrobial activity. Ag-NP synthesized by different methods, one of them biological method, in which extract from plant can used as reducing agent in synthesis of metal nanoparticles. Synthesis of Ag-NP in fresh green tea extract has been carried out in this work as an environment friendly approach. Ag-NP was obtained by the reduction of Ag+ ions through the action of green tea infusions. Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) was used for the determination of the average diameter of the Ag-NP which were found of 20 nm in green tea infusion .The growth of nanoparticles is monitored by UV-VIS spectrophotometer and complemented with characterization using Transmission Electron Microscopy and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy.
