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Green Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles for Electronic Textiles

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Part of the book series: Advanced Structured Materials ((STRUCTMAT,volume 126))

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Nanoparticles (NPs) are one of the primary elements of nanotechnology and nanoengineering. Metal nanoparticles (MNPs) particularly are of great interest because metals in the form of nanoparticles, due to their size, display properties that are different from their bulk counterpart. MNPs are widely used in the form of printable conductive inks and conducting polymer composites (CPCs) to impart electrical functionality to textiles to create electronic (E)-textiles. Metal nanoparticles have long been synthesized by conventional physical methods and using chemical agents which pose various environmental hazards due to their toxic nature. Due to this, green synthesis of metal nanoparticles using plants and microbes has attracted attention. In this chapter, we focus on silver (Ag) and gold (Au) nanoparticles synthesized using plants and their potential use in fabricating E-textiles for sensing applications.

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Kapoor, A., Shankar, P., Ali, W. (2020). Green Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles for Electronic Textiles. In: Ahmed, S., Ali, W. (eds) Green Nanomaterials. Advanced Structured Materials, vol 126. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3560-4_4

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