Nanosilver and its Medical Implications

Abstract

Nanosciences along with the emergence of nanobiotechnolgy and nanomedicine in the last few decades provided a number of opportunities for exploring the bactericidal and fungicidal activities of metal nanoparticles. In the present scenario silver in the form of nanoparticles are playing a major role in the field of Nanotechnology and Nano medicine, their unique size dependent properties make them superior and indispensable. The use of nanotechnology in the field of medicine could revolutionize the way we detect and treat damage to the human body and disease in the future, and many techniques only imagined a few years ago are making remarkable progress towards becoming realities. Silver nanoparticles have been synthesized through various routes in the laboratories in India and as well as many foreign research institutes. These routes can be chemical as well as biological.Nanotechnology has provided a number of nanoparticle-based therapeutics and diagnostic agents. Silver-impregnated wound dressings have the potential to reduce both bio burden and healing time.