Sharma, Nishat and Pinnaka, Anil Kumar and Raje, Manoj and Fnu, Ashish and Bhattachayaya, Mani Shankar and Choudhury, Anirban Roy (2012) Exploitation of marine bacteria for production of gold nanoparticles. Microbial cell factories, 11. p. 86. ISSN 1475-2859
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Abstract
Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have found wide range of applications in electronics, biomedical engineering, and chemistry owing to their exceptional opto-electrical properties. Biological synthesis of gold nanoparticles by using plant extracts and microbes have received profound interest in recent times owing to their potential to produce nanoparticles with varied shape, size and morphology. Marine microorganisms are unique to tolerate high salt concentration and can evade toxicity of different metal ions. However, these marine microbes are not sufficiently explored for their capability of metal nanoparticle synthesis. Although, marine water is one of the richest sources of gold in the nature, however, there is no significant publication regarding utilization of marine micro-organisms to produce gold nanoparticles. Therefore, there might be a possibility of exploring marine bacteria as nanofactories for AuNP biosynthesis.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | OPEN ACCESS |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Marine bacteria, Marinobacter pelagius, Gold nanoparticles, Biological synthesis, Polyphasic taxonomy |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QR Microbiology |
| Depositing User: | Dr. K.P.S.Sengar |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Jan 2013 06:18 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Jan 2015 04:30 |
| URI: | http://crdd.osdd.net/open/id/eprint/1237 |
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