Ajay Savale, S. Ghotekar, S. Pansambal
Nov 8, 2017
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Journal of Bacteriology & Mycology: Open Access
Abstract
Over the past few decades, the use of nanostructured material is becoming more widespread due to its curious and miraculous application in the areas of chemistry, pharmacy, agriculture, textile sizing, optoelectronics, physics and so on.1 Among these nanostructures, metal oxide nanoparticles that exhibit the technological importance for solar cell, gas sensor, optical coating and photovoltaic cell.2 Therein, cadmium oxide is a known n-type semiconductor, piezoelectric characteristics and polycrystalline in nature.3 Cadmium oxide nanostructures are applied in solar cells, gas sensors, transparent electrodes and photodiodes, catalysts, photocatalysts and optoelectronic devices.4 There are several techniques to prepare these materials such as sonochemical, microemulsion, hydrothermal and plant mediated method.1,2,4 However, currently plant extract mediated nanomaterial synthesis is getting lot of attention to the several numerous advantages offered by chemical and physical methods.5,6 Herein, we investigate the cost effective, safe and ecofriendly green synthesis of CdONPs using plant extracts of Leucaena leucocephala L. and their antibacterial, antimalarial and antimycobacterial activity against bacterial pathogens has been evaluated. Hence it is proposed that the biosynthesized CdONPs have significant biomedical applications.