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Despite the wealth of studies related to the isolation and synthesis of metallic nanoparticles, few studies have been conducted to extract nanoparticles from plants. Nanoparticles isolated from plants have been demonstrated to have unique properties for biomedical and industrial applications. In this chapter, we report a method to extract nanoparticles from plants. The proposed method consists of multiple purification steps, including pre-filtration, dialysis, and size exclusion chromatography.
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Lenaghan, S.C., Zhu, Q., Xia, L., Zhang, M. (2012). Extraction of Organic Nanoparticles from Plants. In: Soloviev, M. (eds) Nanoparticles in Biology and Medicine. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 906. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-953-2_31
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