Alfalfa, nanoparticle formation

Gold Nanoparticles Formation by Living Alfalfa Plants... 

E. Gomez, The Nanoparticle Formation and uptake of Precious Metals by Living alfalfa Plants. Master Thesis, the University of Texas at El Paso, Chemistry Department, El Paso, TX, 2002, p. 81. 

Gardea-Torresdey, J. 2003. Use of XAS and TEM to determine the uptake of gold and silver and nanoparticle formation by living alfalfa plants. Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society 225 U837-U837. 

Pioneering studies by Gardea-Torresdey et al. [28,29] reported for the first time the formation of gold and silver nanoparticles by living plants. Their study demonstrated that alfalfa plants can form gold and silver nanoparticles. Furthermore, these researchers reported that nucleation/ growth of the metallic nanoparticles took place inside the plants. This study opened new and exciting ways to synthesize metallic nanoparticles [30,31]. 

Gardea-Torresdey, J. L. Parsons, J. G. Gomez, E. Peralta-Videa, J. Troiani, H. E. Santiago, R Jose Yacaman, M. 2002. Formation and growth of Au nanoparticles inside live alfalfa plants. Nano Lett. 2 397 101. 

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