Synthesis of metal nanoparticles inside living human cells based on the intracellular formation process
Waleed A El-Said1, Hyeon-Yeol Cho, Cheol-Heon Yea
1Interdisciplinary program of Integrated Biotechnology, Sogang University, 35 Baekbeom-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul, 121-742, Republic of Korea; Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Assiut, 71516, Egypt.
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|December 17, 2013
Abstract:
Intracellular and extracellular formation of Au and Ag NPs with different sizes and shapes using human cells has been developed as green method, which does not require the use of any reducing agents. Also, the cell lysis is used for production of different metal NPs. Our results demonstrate that treatment of human cells with various metal ions cause cell fixation.
