%0 Journal Article
%T Facile Preparation of Silver Halide Nanoparticles for Biological Application and Waste Water Treatment
%A Islam M. I. Moustafa
%A Dina N. Abdel Razek
%A Zeinab A. Omran
%A Naglaa M. Mohamed
%J Advances in Nanoparticles
%P 123-138
%@ 2169-0529
%D 2023
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/anp.2023.123010
%X Highly efficient silver halide nanoparticles (AgX, X = Cl, Br NP¡¯s) were successfully synthesized by facile and template-free direct-precipitation method using potassium chloride, potassium bromide and silver nitrate as reactive sources. The as-prepared AgX NP¡¯s were characterized by FTIR, thermogravimetric analysis, XRD, EDX and HRTEM. The antimicrobial susceptibilities against two Gram-positive bacteria (<i>Bacillus cereus</i>, <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>) and four Gram-negative bacteria (<i>Salmonella typhi</i>, <i>Escherichia coli</i>, <i>P. aeruginosa</i> and <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i>) in addition to five fungi (<i>Aspergillus flavus</i>, <i>A. carbonarus</i>, <i>Penicillium verrucosum</i>, <i>Fusarium verticelloides</i> and <i>A. niger</i>) were tested by the disk diffusion technique. The antibacterial and antifungal results suggest that the prepared AgX NP¡¯s show high activity against the tested organisms compared to tetracycline and Nystatin taken as standard drugs. As an application, the use of the prepared AgX NP¡¯s as photo catalyst for the decontamination of malathion as VX chemical warfare agent (CWA) stimulant from water sample was extensively studied.
%K AgX Nanomaterials
%K Antibacterial and Anti Fungal Activity
%K Photo Catalytic Decontamination of Malathion
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=126481