Photocatalytic and Antimicrobial Activities of Biosynthesized Silver Nanoparticles Using Cytobacillus firmus
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Techniques
2.1. Isolation and Identification of Bacterial Strain
2.2. Ag-NPs Biosynthesis and Characterization
2.3. Characterization of Optimized Ag-NPs
2.4. Antimicrobial Activities of Ag-NPs
2.5. Photocatalytic Degradation of Methyleneeblue Dye Solution by Ag-NPs
2.6. Phytotoxicity Test
2.7. Statistical Analysis
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Isolation and Identification of the Bacterial Isolate
3.2. Green Biosynthesis of Ag-NPs
3.3. Characterization of Biosynthesized Ag-NPs
3.3.1. UV-Visible Spectroscopy Analysis
3.3.2. Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)
3.3.3. Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) Analysis
3.3.4. X-ray Diffraction (XRD)
3.3.5. Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) Spectroscopy
3.3.6. Antimicrobial Activity
3.4. Photocatalytic Degradation of Methylene Blue Dye Decolorization by Ag-NPs
3.5. Phytotoxicity of Methylene Blue Dye Solution
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Saied, E.; Hashem, A.H.; Ali, O.M.; Selim, S.; Almuhayawi, M.S.; Elbahnasawy, M.A. Photocatalytic and Antimicrobial Activities of Biosynthesized Silver Nanoparticles Using Cytobacillus firmus. Life 2022, 12, 1331. https://doi.org/10.3390/life12091331
Saied E, Hashem AH, Ali OM, Selim S, Almuhayawi MS, Elbahnasawy MA. Photocatalytic and Antimicrobial Activities of Biosynthesized Silver Nanoparticles Using Cytobacillus firmus. Life. 2022; 12(9):1331. https://doi.org/10.3390/life12091331
Chicago/Turabian StyleSaied, Ebrahim, Amr H. Hashem, Omar M. Ali, Samy Selim, Mohammed S. Almuhayawi, and Mostafa A. Elbahnasawy. 2022. "Photocatalytic and Antimicrobial Activities of Biosynthesized Silver Nanoparticles Using Cytobacillus firmus" Life 12, no. 9: 1331. https://doi.org/10.3390/life12091331