Rudraksha Assisted Generation of Silver Nanoparticles for Integrated Application in the Biomedical Landscape

ABSTRACT

Today, there is a call for environmentally-friendly, cost-effective technique to eliminate the use of harsh, toxic reagents and minimize hazardous by-products. We thus allocated to synthesize silver nanoparticles through a green route graced with the mystical properties of five faceted beads of the plant Elaeocarpus granitrus Roxb., the Rudraksha. Positive feature of the Rudraksha bead is that it does not degrade, degenerate, or disintegrate; the same bead can be repeatedly intervened for flabbergasting generation of nanoparticles umpteen times bestowing approximately similar results. The nanoparticles were involved for development of bionanocomposite using chitosan matrix. Various techniques were used for characterization. Antimicrobial assay was completed.

KEYWORDS:

• nanoparticles
• biosynthesis
• bionanocomposite
• biomaterial
• antimicrobial

Acknowledgments

One of the authors PD sincerely acknowledges and pays gratitude to Prof. O. N. Srivastava, Physics Department, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, for the TEM micrographs and EDX analysis. The author is also thankful to Prof. P. K. Dutta, Dr. Ashutosh Pandey, Dr. Tamal Ghosh, Dr. Shivesh Sharma, Ishrar Ahmed, and Keshav Shukla of MNNIT, Allahabad, India, and Dr. M. M. Dwivedi, NCEMP, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India for their kind support during the research work.