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Plant-Mediated Synthesis of Copper Oxide Nanoparticles and Their Biological Applications

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Copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO NPs) are of potentially great interest due to their excellent properties and diverse applications in industry and biomedicine. They are mainly produced by physical and chemical methods that are generally costly and toxic to environment. Recently, green synthesis of metal NPs has been actively pursued as an alternative, efficient, cost-effective, less toxic, and eco-friendly method for producing NPs with specified properties. This chapter presents a detailed account of plant-mediated and biomolecule-assisted synthesis of CuO NPs with main focus on reduction, capping and stabilization, and on their prospective applications.

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  1. Department of Environmental Science, Graphic Era University, Dehradun, India

    Archana Joshi

  2. Department of Chemistry, Graphic Era University, Dehradun, India

    Ashutosh Sharma

  3. Department of Industrial Chemistry, College of Applied Science, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Rakesh Kumar Bachheti

  4. Department of Biology, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

    Azamal Husen

  5. Department of Biotechnology, Baba Farid Institute of Technology, Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand, India

    Vinod Kumar Mishra

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Joshi, A., Sharma, A., Bachheti, R.K., Husen, A., Mishra, V.K. (2019). Plant-Mediated Synthesis of Copper Oxide Nanoparticles and Their Biological Applications. In: Husen, A., Iqbal, M. (eds) Nanomaterials and Plant Potential. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05569-1_8

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