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ArticleProgress in biomaterials2017

Green synthesis and characterization of Ag nanoparticles from Mangifera indica leaves for dental restoration and antibacterial applications.

Dola Sundeep, T Vijaya Kumar, P S Subba Rao, R V S S N Ravikumar, A Gopala Krishna

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Article in Progress in biomaterials, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Dola SundeepSchool of Nanotechnology, Center for Nano Science and Technology, Institute of Science and Technology (IST), Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, 533 003, India. sundeepdola@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3585-6664
T Vijaya KumarDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, K L University, Green Fields, Vaddeswaram, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, 522 520, India.
P S Subba RaoSchool of Nanotechnology, Center for Nano Science and Technology, Institute of Science and Technology (IST), Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, 533 003, India.
R V S S N RavikumarDepartment of Physics, University College of Sciences, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India.
A Gopala KrishnaSchool of Nanotechnology, Center for Nano Science and Technology, Institute of Science and Technology (IST), Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, 533 003, India.
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada · INAcharya Nagarjuna University · INKoneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Green synthesis has gained a wide recognition as clean synthesis technique in the recent years. In the present investigation, silver nanoparticles were prepared by a novel green synthesis technique using Mangifera indica (Mango leaves) and found to be successfully used in dental applications. The prepared samples were spectroscopically characterized by XRD, PSA, SEM with EDS, and UV-Vis spectroscopy. The crystalline size and lattice strain were analyzed from the XRD data which were counter-verified by W-H plots and particle size analyzer. The XRD peaks revealed that average crystalline size of the as-synthesized Ag nanoparticles was of 32.4 nm with face-centered cubic structure. This was counter-verified by particle size analyzer and Williamson-Hall plots and found to be 31.7 and 33.21 nm in the former and latter, and the crystalline size of Ag NPs could be concluded as 32 ± 2 nm. The morphological structure of the prepared sample was studied through SEM images and the chemical composition was analyzed by the EDS data. The band energy was calculated as 393 nm from UV-Vis, which confirmed the synthesized sample as Ag nanoparticles. To improve the mechanical bonding and hardness of the dentally used glass ionomer cement (GIC), the synthesized silver nanoparticles were incorporated into GIC in 2% weight ratio. The morphology of the prepared specimens was studied using optical microscope images. Vickers microhardness and Monsanto hardness tests were performed on GIC, GIC reinforced with microsilver particles and GIC reinforced with nanosilver particles and the latter derived a promising results. The results of the Monsanto tests confirmed the increase in hardness of the GIC reinforced with AgNps as 14.2 kg/cm

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Antibacterial activityIonomer cementMonsanto hardnessSilver nanoparticlesVickers hardness

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PMID28470622
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