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New Evidence for Natural Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles, Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) and Collaborators Study Finds 5/11/2011 7:53:21 AM Nanoparticles of silver are being found increasingly in the environment—and in environmental science laboratories. Because they have a variety of useful properties, especially as antibacterial and antifungal agents, silver nanoparticles increasingly are being used in a wide variety of industrial and consumer products. This, in turn, has raised concerns about what happens to them once released into the environment. Now a new research paper adds an additional wrinkle: Nature may be making silver nanoparticles on its own.

New Evidence for Natural Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles, Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) and Collaborators Study Finds
5/11/2011 7:53:21 AM

Nanoparticles of silver are being found increasingly in the environment—and in environmental science laboratories. Because they have a variety of useful properties, especially as antibacterial and antifungal agents, silver nanoparticles increasingly are being used in a wide variety of industrial and consumer products. This, in turn, has raised concerns about what happens to them once released into the environment. Now a new research paper adds an additional wrinkle: Nature may be making silver nanoparticles on its own.