Nano-Antimicrobials || Silver Nanoparticles as Nano-Antimicrobials: Bioactivity, Benefits and Bottlenecks

✍ Scribed by Cioffi, Nicola; Rai, Mahendra

• Book ID: 120256326
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: German
• Weight: 318 KB
• Edition: 2012
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 3642244289
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-24428-5_7

✦ Synopsis

There is a high demand for  antimicrobials for the treatment of new and emerging microbial diseases. In particular, microbes developing multidrug resistance have created a pressing need to search for a new generation of antimicrobial agents, which are effective, safe and can be used for the cure of multidrug-resistant microbial infections. Nano-antimicrobials offer effective solutions for these challenges; the details of these new technologies are presented here. The book includes  chapters by an international team of experts. Chemical, physical, electrochemical, photochemical and mechanical methods of synthesis are covered. Moreover,  biological synthesis using microbes, an option that  is both eco-friendly and economically viable, is presented. The antimicrobial potential of different nanoparticles is also covered, bioactivity mechanisms are elaborated on, and several applications are reviewed in separate sections. Lastly, the toxicology of nano-antimicrobials is briefly assessed.