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Gold Nanoparticles from Plant System: Synthesis, Characterization and their Application

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Part of the book series: Soil Biology ((SOILBIOL,volume 48))

Abstract

Gold nanoparticles have gained more attention because of their biocompatibility and potential applications in various sectors. Over the past few years, fabrications of gold nanoparticle by various chemical and physical methods as well as the biosynthetic approach have been regularly reported. Owing to reach biodiversity, several plants (vascular and nonvascular), plant-related parts (leaves, stems, roots, shoots, flowers, barks and seeds) and their products (alkaloids, flavonoids, saponins, steroids, tannins and other nutritional compounds) have been successfully used for efficient and rapid green synthesis of gold nanoparticles in nonhazardous ways. The size of gold nanoparticles that are obtained by the biogenic synthetic route may be controlled by monitoring the concentration, pH, incubation time and temperature of the plant extract or biomass and that of the gold salt. Various techniques are used for the characterization of gold nanoparticles, namely, UV–Vis spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, dynamic light scattering, zeta potential, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and so on. Gold nanoparticles have been used in peptides, proteins or nucleic acid delivery, catalytic activity and antimicrobial and environmental monitoring. This chapter provides an overview of the current status of of plant-mediated syntheses of gold nanoparticles, possible mechanisms involved, characterization as well as their numerous applications in different disciplines of medicine, industry, agriculture and pharmacy.

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Husen, A. (2017). Gold Nanoparticles from Plant System: Synthesis, Characterization and their Application. In: Ghorbanpour, M., Manika, K., Varma, A. (eds) Nanoscience and Plant–Soil Systems. Soil Biology, vol 48. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46835-8_17

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