Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Synthesis:pp.1-2
Chapter 1. Development of Versatile Synthetic Procedures to Prepare Colloidal Silver Nanoparticles with Defined Properties
(Silvia Rinaldi and Loredana Latterini, Dipartimento di Chimica and Centro di Eccellenza sui Materiali Innovativi Nanostrutturati (CEMIN), Università di Perugia Via Elce di Sotto, Perugia, Italy, and others) pp.3-14
Chapter 2. Silver Nanoclusters: Size-Controlled Synthesis and Size-Dependent Properties
(Wei Chen, State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China) pp.15-34
Chapter 3. Fabrication of Silver Nanoparticles by Laser Ablation Technique: Their Characterization and Uses
(A.F.M.Y. Haider and Aminul I. Talukder, Physics Department, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh) pp.35-58
Chapter 4. Synthesis and Characterization of Silver Nanoparticles and Nanostructures for SERS Applications
(G. M. Herrera-Sandoval, H. Félix-Rivera, A. C. Padilla-Jimenez, M. Balaguera-Gelves, C. A. Ortega-Zúñiga, L. C. Pacheco-Londoño, O. M. Primera-Pedrozo, P. M. Fierro, C. Ríos-Velázquez and S. P. Hernández-Rivera, Univ. Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, Mayagüez, PR, and others) pp.59-100
Chapter 5. Synthesis Methodology for Size and Shape Control of Silver Nanoparticles
(M.A. Shenashen, Sherif A. El-Safty and Emad A. Elshehy, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken, Japan, and others) pp.101-128
Chapter 6. Potential Role of Silver Nanoparticles Morphology on its Applications
(M.A. Shenashen, Sherif A. El-Safty and Emad A. Elshehy, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken, Japan, and others)pp.131-166
Uses:pp.129-130
Chapter 7. First-Principles Study of Small Silver Clusters Deposited on TiO2 Surface
(A. Mazheika, Vitaly Matulis, T. Bredow, O. Ivashkevich, Research Institute for Physical Chemical Problems of the BSU, Minsk, Belarus, and others)pp.167-184
Chapter 8. Antibacterial Activity of Silver Nanoparticle-Based Nanocomposites
(E. Fortunati, Materials Engineering Center, UdR INSTM, University of Perugia, Terni, Italy)pp.185-202
Chapter 9. Silver Nanoparticles Confined into Block Copolymer Matrices: A Review
(Laura Peponi, Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de Polímeros, ICTP- CSIC, Madrid, Spain)pp.203-218
Chapter 10. Silver-gold Nano-composites for Photo-catalytic and Sensing Applications
Ewa Kowalska, Yoshiaki Nishijima, Lorenzo Rosa and Saulius Juodkazis, Catalysis Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, and others) pp.219-244
Health Concerns:pp.245-246
Chapter 11. Silver Nanoparticles in Alginate Solutions and Hydrogels Aimed for Biomedical Applications
(Bojana Obradovic and Vesna Miskovic-Stankovic, Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Serbia)pp.247-260
Chapter 12. Cytotoxicology of Silver Nanoparticles
(Horacio Bach and Fidel Martínez-Gutiérrez, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of British Columbia British Columbia, Canada, and others)pp.261-282
Chapter 13. Synthesis and Stabilization of Silver Nanoparticles for Antibacterial and Drug Delivery Systems
(Darya Radziuk, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA)pp.283-300
Chapter 14. Biopolymeric Nanoparticles with a Silver Core for Biomedical Application
(Nicoletta Rescignano and Ilaria Armentano, Institute of Polymer Science and Technology, CSIC, Madrid, Spain, and others)pp.301-318
Chapter 15. Silver Nanoparticles with Polymers as Medical Devices
(Magdalena Stevanovic, Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia)pp.319-332
Chapter 16. Interaction of Silver Nanoparticles with Bacteria: Influence of Surface Coatings
(Anil K. Suresh, Department of Molecular Medicine, Beckman Research Institute at City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA)
pp.333-346
Chapter 17. Synthesis, Characterization, and Health Concerns of Silver Nanoparticles in Food Packaging Applications
(Raúl A. Trbojevich and Avelina Fernández, Division of Biochemical Toxicology, National Center for Toxicological Research, U.S. FDA, Jefferson, AR, USA, and others)pp.347-369
Chapter 18. AgNPs, Silver Nanoparticles and Health Concerns: A Review on in vitro and in vivo Toxicity
(Livia Visai, Davide Ferrari, Silvia Minardi, Ennio Tasciotti, Piercarlo Mustarelli and Marcello Imbriani, Department of Molecular Medicine, Via Forlanini 6 and Center for Tissue Engineering (C.I.T.), University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, and others)pp.369-394
Chapter 19. Silver Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Growth Mechanism and Bioapplications
(Xiaohong Yang, Haitao Fu, Xuchuan Jiang and Aibing Yu, School of Materials Science and Engineering, the University of New South Wales Sydney, NSW, Australia)pp.395-460
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