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Type: 
Journal
Description: 
Over the last years, there has been an increasing trend towards the use of environmentally friendly processes to synthesize nanomaterials. In the case of nanomedicine, the use of bionanofactories with associated biological properties, such as seaweed, has emerged as a promising field of work due to the possibility they open for both the preservation of those properties in the nanomaterials synthesized and/or the reduction of their toxicity. In the present study, gold (Au@SP) and silver (Ag@SP) nanoparticles were synthesized using an aqueous extract of Saccorhiza polyschides (SP). Several techniques showed that the nanoparticles formed were spherical and stable, with mean diameters of 14±2 nm for Au@SP and 15±3 nm for Ag@SP. The composition of the biomolecules in the extract and the nanoparticles were also analyzed. The analyses performed indicate that the extract acts as a protective medium, with …
Publisher: 
Elsevier
Publication date: 
12 Feb 2021
Authors: 

N González-Ballesteros, L Diego-González, M Lastra-Valdor, M Grimaldi, A Cavazza, F Bigi, MC Rodríguez-Argüelles, R Simón-Vázquezb

Biblio References: 
Pages: 111960
Origin: 
Materials Science and Engineering: C