Title
Unraveling the Active Biomolecules Responsible for the Sustainable Synthesis of Nanoscale Silver Particles through Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Metabolomics
Date Issued
07 December 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
American Chemical Society
Abstract
We have investigated the sustainable synthesis of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) using blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum L.) ethanolic extract from the point of view of the intervening metabolites. An extensive NMR metabolomic approach based on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and headspace-solid phase microextraction (HS-SPME) followed by gas chromatography/quadrupole-mass spectrometry (GC-qMS) has been directed in order to ascertain for the first time the involved bioactive molecules as those responsible for the synthesis of AgNPs. The green process was monitored through UV-vis spectrophotometry, and a plethora of techniques such as EDX, XRD, XPS, TEM, SEM, and DLS were used to confirm the formation of the AgNPs. The successful synthesis was indirectly proven by their antibacterial activity against Gram-positive Streptococcus pyogenes and Gram-negative bacteria Salmonella typhi.
Start page
17816
End page
17827
Volume
8
Issue
48
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería química Ciencias de las plantas, Botánica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85097872841
Source
ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering
ISSN of the container
21680485
Sponsor(s)
This research has been funded by the Department of Research and Development (DNID) of Universidad Privada del Norte (UPN) and the State Research Agency (nos. RTC-2016-5239-2 and CTQ2017-84334-R) of the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, together with the European Regional Development Fund Program. A.C.A. and R.C.-C. thank the University of Almería for a Hiphathia posdoc fellowship and the Atracción de Talento project of Comunidad de Madrid (no. 2018-T1/IND-10736), respectively. This research has been funded by the Department of Research and Development (DNID) of Universidad Privada del Norte (UPN) and the State Research Agency (nos. RTC-2016-5239-2 and CTQ2017-84334-R) of the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, together with the European Regional Development Fund Program. A.C.A. and R.C.-C. thank the University of Almeria for a Hiphathia posdoc fellowship and the Atraccion de Talento project of Comunidad de Madrid (no. 2018-T1/IND-10736)
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