Concentration induced properties of silver nanoparticles and their antibacterial study

• Published in: Surfaces and interfaces 2020-03, Vol.18, p.100419, Article 100419
• Main Authors: Ugwoke, Emmanuel, Aisida, Samson O., Mirbahar, Ameer Ahmed, Arshad, M., Ahmad, Ishaq, Zhao, Ting-kai, Ezema, Fabian I.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antibacterial activities; Green synthesis; Moringa olifera; Nanomaterials; Nanoparticles
• ISSN: 2468-0230; 2468-0230
• DOI: 10.1016/j.surfin.2019.100419

•Green synthesis of Ag-NPs via aqueous extracts of MO was demonstrated via incubation period.•MO serves as a substantial reducing agents.•MO phytochemicals are the fuel that reduced Ag ion to Ag-NPs under incubation period.•The susceptibility of Ag-NPs was examined against E. Coli, Coliform and S. aureus.•Ag-NPs show strong bactericidal against E. Coli, Coliform and S. aureus compared with gentamicin. Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) using Moringa Oleifera (MO) bloated in flavonoids, tannins, and phenols phytochemical as a capping and reducing agent which reduced the silver ions to Ag-NPs without any external reducing agent for an antibacterial agent is enclave in this work. The effects of the reducing agent in the different concentrations of silver nitrate incubated for 72 h on the structural, morphological and optical properties followed by the antibacterial activity of Ag-NPs were studied. The synthesized Ag-NPs were characterized by scanning electron microscope (SEM), transition electron microscope (TEM), X-ray dispersive spectroscopy (XRD), Uv–visible spectroscopy and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) analysis. The TEM analysis gave a spherical morphology with particle size ranged between 4 and 12 nm. The XRD gave a face-centered cubic phase with the crystalline structure of Ag-NPs. The FTIR shows the functional groups responsible for the reducing agent. The UV–visible confirm the formation of Ag-NPs with surface plasmon resonance (SPR) absorbance peak 450 nm. To our knowledge, the biocidal activities of AgNPs have been studied in details but the biosynthesized formulation of Ag-NPs via MO against Coliform bacterial strain compared with Gentamicin (a strong antibacterial drug) has not been reported in the literature. It is noteworthy that the biocidal activities of Ag-NPs show effective and functional susceptibility to the Ag-NPs against the bacterial strains at lower concentrations compared with Gentamicin. Hence, the obtained Ag-NPs via facile and innocuous synthesis could serve as an auspicious and efficient antibacterial agent against human pathogenic strains due to its non-toxicity, biocompatible, eco-friendly, cost-effectiveness, and facile protocols in therapeutic biomedical fields.