Biosynthesis of metal nanoparticles
AssigneeKing Saud University
InventorsNaiyf Sultan Helial Alaloi Alharbi, Jamal Mohammed Ali Khaled, Mohamed Salah El-Din Hodhod, Shine Moosa Kadaikunnan, Ahmed Saad Alobaidi
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Abstract
A method of preparing metal nanoparticles using a fungal extract includes providing an aqueous solution including a metal salt; and combining the fungal extract with the aqueous metal salt solution to produce the metal nanoparticles. The fungal extract can be an aqueous extract of the manglicolous fungi The metal salt can be copper sulfate (CuSO4) and the metal nanoparticles can be copper nanoparticles. The metal nanoparticles can have a mean diameter in the range of from about 5 nm to about 100 nm. The copper nanoparticles can be used as an antimicrobial agent.
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A method for biosynthesis of copper nanoparticles comprising the steps of:
- preparing an aqueous extract of Ascocylindrica marina, wherein the aqueous component is selected from the group consisting of sterile seawater mixed 1:1 with sterile distilled water or sterile distilled water alone;
- providing an aqueous solution including copper sulfate (CuSO4) and water, wherein the aqueous solution has a copper sulfate (CuSO4) concentration of 1 mM;
- combining the aqueous extract of the Ascocylindrica marina with the aqueous solution to produce a mixture;
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- incubating the mixture at 25° C. for 24 hours in a shaking incubator, with shaking at 180 rpm to produce the copper nanoparticles, wherein the copper nanoparticles have a mean diameter in the range of from 10 nm to 30 mm.
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