AN ANTIMICROBIAL GREEN NANOPARTICLE SYNTHESIS: A NOVEL APPROACH IN THERAPEUTICS FIELD

Author(s): Viral Surati*, Jatin Patel, Gopal Kumar Raol, Nirav Bhavsar, Yogesh Gopani, Ishita Joshi, Rupesh Jha, Hiral Patel and Yati Vaidya

Abstract: The advent of nanotechnology in the biomedical and pharmaceutical field develops the method for plant-mediated synthesis of metal nanoparticles because they produce a wide array of phytochemicals such as alkaloids, flavonoids, saponins, steroids, tannins and other metabolites which can act as a reducing and binding agent. This biological approach for the production of nanoparticles has several merits over the physicochemical methods as it is one step procedure, environment-friendly and cost-effective. This review provides insight on the role of plants and its secondary metabolites in the production of various greener nanoparticles such as copper, silver, gold, platinum, and zinc oxide which possesses antimicrobial activity and also focus on the numerous factors that affect size, shape, and yield of metal nanoparticles.

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