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Silver-Nanoparticle-Embedded Antimicrobial Paints

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In the twenty-first century, silver nanoparticles as antimicrobial agents can be found in a wide range of commercially available products. This chapter reviews the latest developments in modifying paints with differently synthesized silver nanoparticles and studying their antibacterial and antifungal properties. For carrying out typical microbiological tests, the commercially available water paint has been mixed with 200 ppm silver nanoparticles solution in different ratios of 20:1, 50:1, and 100:1 to impart antibacterial and fungicidal properties to the paint. Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhimurium, Aspergillus niger, Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Candida albicans cultures have been used to evaluate the antimicrobial properties of Ag nanoparticles in paints. The experiments performed have demonstrated that synthesized silver nanoparticles added to water paints show a pronounced antibacterial and antifungal effect, although they tend to be agglomerated into colloidal clusters. It has been shown that larger concentrations of silver nanoparticles have a greater antibacterial/antifungal efficacy in Ag-nanoparticle-embedded paints. Taking into account the importance of environmental impact of nanotechnologies, potential environmental risks emerging from nanosilver release from modified paints have been also discussed.

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  1. Institute of Nuclear Physics, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

    Murodjon Abdukhakimov & Renat Khaydarov

  2. JSS College of Pharmacy, Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu, India

    Praveen Thaggikuppe Krishnamurthy

  3. Sukachev institute of forest of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation

    Svetlana Evgrafova

  4. Institute of Fundamental Biology and Biotechnology, Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation

    Svetlana Evgrafova

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Abdukhakimov, M., Khaydarov, R., Krishnamurthy, P.T., Evgrafova, S. (2022). Silver-Nanoparticle-Embedded Antimicrobial Paints. In: Handbook of Consumer Nanoproducts. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8698-6_105

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