Green Nanotechnology: Biomimetic Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles Using Plants and Their Application in Agriculture and
Biomimetic nanotechnology is an outstanding investigation area at the meeting place of life sciences with physics and engineering. It is an uninterrupted emerging field that deals with knowledge transfer from biology to nanotechnology. Biomimetic nanotech
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Green Nanotechnology: Biomimetic Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles Using Plants and Their Application in Agriculture and Forestry Mohammadhassan Gholami-Shabani, Zeynab Gholami- Shabani, Masoomeh Shams-Ghahfarokhi, Fatemehsadat Jamzivar, and Mehdi Razzaghi-Abyaneh
Abstract
Biomimetic nanotechnology is an outstanding investigation area at the meeting place of life sciences with physics and engineering. It is an uninterrupted emerging field that deals with knowledge transfer from biology to nanotechnology. Biomimetic nanotechnology is a scope that has the potential to support extensively successful mastering of major global challenges and solve the problems. Metallic nanoparticles are being utilized in every phase of science along with engineering, including agriculture fields, and are still charming the scientists to explore new dimensions for their respective worth, which is generally credited to their corresponding small sizes. The up-and-coming researches have proven their antimicrobial significance. The present chapter is devoted to the possibility of metal nanoparticle synthesis using plant extracts and microorganisms. This approach has been actively pursued in recent years as an alternative, efficient, low-cost, and environmentally safe technique for producing nanoparticles with specified properties. The main attention is on the role of the natural plant biomolecules involved in the bioreduction of metal salts during the nanoparticle syntheM. Gholami-Shabani Department of Mycology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran 13164, Iran Department of Nanobiotechnology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran 13164, Iran Z. Gholami-Shabani Faculty of Aerospace, Science and Research Campus, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran M. Shams-Ghahfarokhi Department of Mycology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran 14115-331, Iran F. Jamzivar • M. Razzaghi-Abyaneh (*) Department of Mycology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran 13164, Iran e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017 R. Prasad et al. (eds.), Nanotechnology, DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-4573-8_8
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sis. Moreover, attempts to apply nanotechnology in agriculture began with the growing realization that conventional agriculture technologies would neither be able to grow productivity any further nor restore ecosystems damaged by existing technologies back to their pristine situation, in particular because the long- term effects of farming with “miracle seeds,” in conjunction with pesticides, irrigation, and fertilizers, have been questioned both at the scientific and policy levels and must be steadily phased out. Nanotechnology in agricultural science has gained momentum in the past decade with a plenty of public funding, but the pace of growth is modest, even though many disciplines come under the umbrella of agriculture. This could be credited to a unique nature of farm production, which functions as an open system whereby energy and material are swapped freely; the scal
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