Extraction of organic nanoparticles from plants

Abstract

Despite the wealth of studies related to the isolation and synthesis of metallic nanoparticles, few studies have been conducted to extract nanoparticles from plants. Nanoparticles isolated from plants have been demonstrated to have unique properties for biomedical and industrial applications. In this chapter, we report a method to extract nanoparticles from plants. The proposed method consists of multiple purification steps, including pre-filtration, dialysis, and size exclusion chromatography. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.