Silver Nanoparticle Applications

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Silver Nanoparticles: From Bulk Material to Colloidal Nanoparticles

   • Kevin Stamplecoskie

   Pages 1-12

3. Synthetic Routes for the Preparation of Silver Nanoparticles

   • Natalia L. Pacioni, Claudio D. Borsarelli, Valentina Rey, Alicia V. Veglia

   Pages 13-46

4. Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) Using Nanoparticles

   • Altaf Khetani, Ali Momenpour, Vidhu S. Tiwari, Hanan Anis

   Pages 47-70

5. Silver Nanoparticles in Heterogeneous Plasmon Mediated Catalysis

   • María González-Béjar

   Pages 71-92

6. Biomedical Uses of Silver Nanoparticles: From Roman Wine Cups to Biomedical Devices

   • Hasitha de Alwis Weerasekera, May Griffith, Emilio I. Alarcon

   Pages 93-125

7. Anti-microbiological and Anti-infective Activities of Silver

   • May Griffith, Klas I. Udekwu, Spyridon Gkotzis, Thien-Fah Mah, Emilio I. Alarcon

   Pages 127-146

8. Erratum to: Biomedical Uses of Silver Nanoparticles: From Roman Wine Cups to Biomedical Devices

   • Hasitha de Alwis Weerasekera, May Griffith, Emilio I. Alarcon

   Pages E1-E1

Exploring the synthesis, characterization, surface manipulation, electron transfer and biological activity of silver nanoparticles, this book examines the fundamentals of the properties and synthesis of these particles. With a renewed interest in silver nanoparticles, this book addresses the need to understand their potential in industrial, medical and other applications. It is divided into six chapters, each written by an expert and providing a comprehensive review of the topic while detailing recent advances made in each specific area. These topics include surface plasmon band, synthesis and characterization, Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) and plasmon resonance mediated processes, photocatalysis, biomedical applications and biological activity. It also presents the current state of the art, challenges and future trends of catalysis, sensing and biomedical applications.

‘Silver Nanoparticle Applications’ provides an invaluable reference work and introduction for chemists, biologists, physicists and biomedical researchers who are interested in exploring the uses and applications of silver nanoparticles. It is also intended for students, researchers and professionals interested in nanotechnology.

• Antimicrobial and Cell Toxicity
• Biomedical Applications
• Electron Transfer
• SPR
• Silver Nanoparticles
• Silver Nanoparticles Applications
• Surface Plasmon Resonance Band

• Principal Investigator/Assistant Professor, Director Bio-nanomaterials Chemistry and Engineering Laboratory, Cardiac Surgery Research, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Canada

  Emilio I. Alarcon

• Director, Integrative Regenerative Medicine Centre Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

  May Griffith

• Swedish Medical Nanoscience Center, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

  Klas I. Udekwu

Dr. Emilio I. Alarcon  was born in Santiago, Chile. In 2005, Emilio received his B.Sc. in Chemistry under the supervision of Professor Eduardo Lissi at Universidad de Santiago de Chile exploring the chemiluminiscent mechanisms of tryptophan oxidation. Short after he moved to Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile to pursue graduate studies. He received his MSc in Chemistry in 2008 and one year later the degree of PhD in Chemistry with a dissertation on Oxidation mechanisms of proteins mediated by reactive oxygen species. The same year Emilio moved to Ottawa with his family for a postdoctoral position at Tito Scaiano’s laboratory where he explored the development of new bionanomaterials for the health sciences and biosensors. In 2011 he was promoted to Research Associate position that he hold until he moved to the University of Ottawa Heart Institute in July 2014. Emilio is currently the Director of the Bio-nanomaterials Chemistry and Engineering Laboratory.

Dr. May Griffith is Professor of Regenerative Medicine and Scientific Director of the Integrative Regenerative Medicine (IGEN) Centre at Linköping University (LiU), and Adjunct Professor, University of Ottawa, Canada. MG’s research is in translational regenerative medicine, with special interests in biomaterials enhanced cell-based regeneration. She has successfully led the first-in-human translation into clinic of biosynthetic corneal implants that stimulated regeneration in an organ that normally does not regenerate, in a clinical trial of 10 patients. MG's biosynthetic materials have also been successfully tested in collaboration with other researchers for use in cardiovascular, skin and cartilage regeneration in animal models to date, in preparation for clinical translation. She has worked extensively with industry and her work has been published in top peer-reviewed journals, as well as profiled by the media and has earned her a number of awards.

Dr. Klas Udekwu is an AssistantProfessor in the Department of Neuroscience at the ‘Karolinska Institutet’ (KI) in Sweden and external associate of the Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research & Education (VIIBRE) in Nashville, USA.  KU’s research interests are multidisciplinary in nature, spanning molecular microbiology, microbe-dependent neurodevelopment and stress, the population biology of antibiotic therapy, and polymicrobial biofilms. He was trained in molecular biology and microbiology in Uppsala University, Sweden and later population biology in Emory University, USA, both under renowned researchers. He is currently building up his own experimental group in Stockholm, Sweden.

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