Applied Chemical Engineering

Preparation and characterization of silver nanoparticles in an environmentally friendly method

Safa Mohsen Shnain

Al - Qadisiyah Education Directorate, Ministry of Education, Qadisiyah, 58001, Iraq

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59429/ace.v9i2.5930

Keywords: biosynthesis; nanoparticles; reducing agents; cinnamomum extract

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Abstract

Sliver nanoparticles were prepared in an environmentally friendly method. This method is safe and economically inexpensive, as the reducing agents found in the plant work to convert simple primary chemicals into nanomaterials with unique and distinctive properties. They are characterized by their size, which ranges from 10 -100 nm, therefore they are of great importance in all areas of life as they are used in industry, agriculture, medicine, energy, communications and others.

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