Authors : Sartaj Sheikh, Arvind J. Mungole, Sonal Karambe
Page Nos : 286-289
Description :
In present world nanotechnology is emerged with various applications. Zinc oxide nanoparticles have implementations in different fields such as environmental remediation, pharmaceutical, food and cosmetic industries. Rest of these implementations, zinc oxide nanoparticles are enormously applicable in catalytic activity, antibacterial, anticancer, antioxidant, antifungal, photo catalytic activity as well as active catalyst for organic transformation. So, the zinc oxide nanoparticles attracting focus of researchers towards it. Besides chemical and physical methods for synthesis of nanoparticles biological synthesis of nanoparticles gaining more weightage due to its environment friendly, sustainable and cost effectiveness. In green approach of NPs synthesis plant material provide reducing, capping as well as stabilizing agents and bring downs biological and environmental risk due to use of toxic chemicals. SEM, TEM, XRD, FTIR, EDS, UV-Vis spectroscopy etc. are some of the methods used for characterization of biosynthesized NPs. Biologically synthesized ZnONPs shows effective antimicrobial activity against pathogenic bacteria is also revealed in this review.
