ABSTRACT
Metal nanoparticles exhibit tunable properties depending on their morphology, composition, and crystallinity. Tweaking their shape enables tuning of their properties. Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) have gained increased interest among the reported nano metals because of its ease of preparation and excellent properties. AgNPs are widely employed for disinfection purposes. They act as prospective antimicrobial agents and attacks varieties of active sites in the microbes. Nowadays, special emphasis was given to their size and shape-controlled preparation. Even though the studies on this area are in the budding phase, the great space is there in the fact that fine-tuning of size and shape can produce incredible properties for these materials and their applications in bio-medical field. The present chapter encompasses an analysis of shape and size reliant properties exclusively antimicrobial activities of AgNPs.
