Microbe-mediated synthesis of silver nanoparticles: A new drug of choice against pathogenic microorganisms .................................................... Deene Manikprabhu and Wen-Jun Li

Although the concept of nanoparticles was rst presented by Richard Feynman through his famous lecture entitled “There’s a plenty of room at the bottom” at the American Institute of Technology (Hulkoti and Taranath, 2014), nanoparticles have been used since antiquity. For example, the Chinese used gold nanoparticles as an inorganic dye to introduce red color into their ceramic porcelains more than a thousand years ago.

19.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 389 19.2 Microbe-mediated synthesis of silver nanoparticles .................................................... 390