Controlling Oriented Attachment of Gold Nanoparticles by Size and Shape

Author(s):  
David J. Schupp ◽  
Jonathan Angst ◽  
Eva A. Schaefer ◽  
Stefan M. Schupp ◽  
Helmut Cölfen
Molecules ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (11) ◽  
pp. 2682 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis J. Osonga ◽  
Ali Akgul ◽  
Idris Yazgan ◽  
Ayfer Akgul ◽  
Gaddi B. Eshun ◽  
...  

Plant-based pathogenic microbes hinder the yield and quality of food production. Plant diseases have caused an increase in food costs due to crop destruction. There is a need to develop novel methods that can target and mitigate pathogenic microbes. This study focuses on investigating the effects of luteolin tetraphosphate derived silver nanoparticles (LTP-AgNPs) and gold nanoparticles (LTP-AuNPs) as a therapeutic agent on the growth and expression of plant-based bacteria and fungi. In this study, the silver and gold nanoparticles were synthesized at room temperature using luteolin tetraphosphate (LTP) as the reducing and capping agents. The synthesis of LTP-AgNPs and LTP-AuNP was characterized by Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and size distribution. The TEM images of both LTP-AgNPs and LTP-AuNPs showed different sizes and shapes (spherical, quasi-spherical, and cuboidal). The antimicrobial test was conducted using fungi: Aspergillus nidulans, Trichaptum biforme, Penicillium italicum, Fusarium oxysporum, and Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, while the class of bacteria employed include Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Aeromonas hydrophila, Escherichia coli, and Citrobacter freundii as Gram (−) bacteria, and Listeria monocytogenes and Staphylococcus epidermidis as Gram (+) bacterium. The antifungal study demonstrated the selective size and shape-dependent capabilities in which smaller sized spherical (9 nm) and quasi-spherical (21 nm) AgNPs exhibited 100% inhibition of the tested fungi and bacteria. The LTP-AgNPs exhibited a higher antimicrobial activity than LTP-AuNPs. We have demonstrated that smaller sized AgNPs showed excellent inhibition of A. nidulans growth compared to the larger size nanoparticles. These results suggest that LTP-AuNP and LTP-AgNPs could be used to address the detection and remediation of pathogenic fungi, respectively.


2019 ◽  
Vol 224 ◽  
pp. 22-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pa Fan Hsiao ◽  
Hsieh-Chih Tsai ◽  
Sydney Peng ◽  
Adhimoorthy Prasannan ◽  
Ting-Cheng Tang ◽  
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2011 ◽  
Vol 115 (8) ◽  
pp. 3279-3285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshikiyo Hatakeyama ◽  
Takeshi Morita ◽  
Satoshi Takahashi ◽  
Kei Onishi ◽  
Keiko Nishikawa

Author(s):  
Nathan J. Ray ◽  
Jae H. Yoo ◽  
Hoang T. Nguyen ◽  
Michael A. Johnson ◽  
Salmaan H. Baxamusa ◽  
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