Journal
MATERIALS LETTERS
Volume 155, Issue -, Pages 62-64Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2015.04.138
Keywords
Gallic acid; Silver nanoparticles; Escherichia coli; Staphylococcus aureus; Pathogenic bacteria; Production technology; Plant resource
Funding
- Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea
- Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Korea [IPET 112051-03]
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Gallic acid (trihydroxybenzoic acid) an abundantly available plant phenolic bioresource was utilized to establish a greener production of smaller sized (8 +/- 4 nm) stable silver nanoparticles (AgNPs), without any waste byproducts. To improve quality of AgNPs, different concentrations of gallic acid (ranging from 2.50 to 11.25 mM), furthermore reaction kinetics was remarkably improved up to fraction of minute using gallic acid:NaOH ratio. Highest transformation (95%) of initial Ag ions (250, 500, and 1000 ppm) into highly dispersed AgNPs was successfully achieved using low concentration of gallic acid (9.375 mM) without affecting the quality of AgNPs. The gallic acid bioprocess seems to be most suitable for the exponential manufacturing, it would play an important role to resolve the scale-up problem with low volume. Smaller AgNPs showed the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) at about 20 and 50 ppm against gram negative and gram positive bacterial cultures, respectively. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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