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ReviewFrontiers in chemistry2017

Silver Nanoparticles: Technological Advances, Societal Impacts, and Metrological Challenges.

Bryan Calderón-Jiménez, Monique E Johnson, Antonio R Montoro Bustos, Karen E Murphy, Michael R Winchester, José R Vega Baudrit

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Review in Frontiers in chemistry, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 88 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

88 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Bryan Calderón-JiménezMaterial Measurement Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, National Institute of Standards and TechnologyGaithersburg, MD, USA; Chemical Metrology Division, National Laboratory of MetrologySan Jose, Costa Rica.
Monique E JohnsonMaterial Measurement Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD, USA.
Antonio R Montoro BustosMaterial Measurement Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD, USA.
Karen E MurphyMaterial Measurement Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD, USA.
Michael R WinchesterMaterial Measurement Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD, USA.
José R Vega BaudritNational Laboratory of Nanotechnology, National Center of High Technology San Jose, Costa Rica.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) show different physical and chemical properties compared to their macroscale analogs. This is primarily due to their small size and, consequently, the exceptional surface area of these materials. Presently, advances in the synthesis, stabilization, and production of AgNPs have fostered a new generation of commercial products and intensified scientific investigation within the nanotechnology field. The use of AgNPs in commercial products is increasing and impacts on the environment and human health are largely unknown. This article discusses advances in AgNP production and presents an overview of the commercial, societal, and environmental impacts of this emerging nanoparticle (NP), and nanomaterials in general. Finally, we examine the challenges associated with AgNP characterization, discuss the importance of the development of NP reference materials (RMs) and explore their role as a metrological mechanism to improve the quality and comparability of NP measurements.

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characterizationenvironment health and safetymetrologyreference materialssilver nanoparticlessynthesis

Identifiers

PMID28271059
PMCPMC5318410

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