Biofabrication of gold and silver nanoparticles for pharmaceutical applications

Abstract

Nanotechnology is an important field of modern pharmaceutical research involves synthesis and development of various nanoparticles (NPs) with unique features and extensive pharmaceutical and medical applications in drug delivery, diagnostics, imaging, sensing, gene delivery, artificial implants and tissue engineering (1). Silver (Ag) NPs are currently used as an active drug in targeted drug delivery (2), gene delivery (3), and artificial implants (4) and as a diagnostic agent for imaging and sensing in different diseases at their early stages. Owing to their mutationresistant antimicrobial activity, they are