Antibacterial activity of poly(vinyl alcohol)-b-poly(acrylonitrile) based micelles loaded with silver nanoparticles

Synthesis and comparative study on the antimicrobial activity of hybrid materials based on silver nanoparticles (AgNps) stabilized by polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP)

“…5), and this concentration was accepted as MBC for all tested control strains. These results are in a good agreement with our previous investigations on PVA/PAN-based micelles with embedded silver nanoparticles tested by the same method where the MBC for S. aureus was 2.88±1.75 μg/mL, and for E. coli and P. aeruginosa, MBC was even lower 0.36±0.08 μg/mL [28].…”

Catalytic performance in 4-nitrophenol reduction by Ag nanoparticles stabilized on biodegradable amphiphilic copolymers

“…Among the various metal nanoparticles, silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) have a wide range of application in various fields of industry biomedicine, antibacterial activity, imaging, and nanophotonics as well as surfaceenhanced Raman scattering detection (3)(4)(5)(6)(7). Especially, Ag NPs are attractive for catalysis under mild conditions because their high surface area-to-volume ratio allows efficient utilization of expensive metals.…”

“…Recent reports have demonstrated that Ag NPs can be used as catalyst for reduction reactions (8,9). For example, He et al synthesized Ag-deposited silica-coated magnetic nanoparticles with average particle sizes of 10-20 nm for catalytic reduction of p-nitrophenol by NaBH 4 (8). The catalytic reduction of p-nitrophenol has been extensively studied involving various noble metal nanoparticles, such as Au, Ag, Pt, and Pd (10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15).…”

“…Among those techniques, chemical reduction is the most frequently used strategy by adding a reducing agent (e.g. NaBH 4 , sodium citrate, ascorbate, or LiAlH 4 ) to reduce silver precursor such as silver nitrate (AgNO 3 ) in aqueous solution (20,21).…”

Toxicity of silver nanoparticles on fertilization success and early development of the marine polychaete Hydroides elegans (Haswell, 1883)

“…The silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) possess bactericidal activity (Bryaskova et al, 2010;Lara Villegas, Vanesa Ayala-Nu, Carmen Ixtepan Turrent, & Padilla, 2010) with cytotoxic and genotoxic effect on microbes and cells (Arora, Jain, Rajwade, & Paknikar, 2008;Fenech, 2006). The commercial exploitation of AgNPs in the production of pharmaceutical and cosmetic products lead to its effluent waste disposed in aquatic system.…”