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Silver Nanoparticles as a Biocide for Water Treatment Applications

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Advanced Research in Nanosciences for Water Technology

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The minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) assays conducted for Escherichia coli, S Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, and Penicillium phoeniceum cultures have shown that the antimicrobial activity of silver ions was superior to that of silver nanoparticles. The efficacy of nanosilver as an antimicrobial agent has been estimated against a range of microbes on the surface of fibrous ion-exchange sorbents. The cytotoxicity of silver nanoparticles has been studied using NIH-3T3, HEP-G2, A-549, PC-12, and Colo-320 cells via the MTT (3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl-tetrazolium-bromide) test. The obtained MTT test results have shown that silver nanoparticles with concentrations of ~1–10 ppm entering the body from air or liquid suspensions can present a potential risk to human health.

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  1. Institute of Nuclear Physics, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

    Renat R. Khaydarov, Rashid A. Khaydarov, Olga Gapurova & Ilnur Garipov

  2. Graduate School of Science Education, University of Bengkulu, Bengkulu, Indonesia

    M. Lutfi Firdaus

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Khaydarov, R.R., Khaydarov, R.A., Gapurova, O., Garipov, I., Lutfi Firdaus, M. (2019). Silver Nanoparticles as a Biocide for Water Treatment Applications. In: Prasad, R., Karchiyappan, T. (eds) Advanced Research in Nanosciences for Water Technology. Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02381-2_18

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