Ecofriendly route for waste upcycling and silver nanoparticles synthesis from citrus reticulata peel

Abstract

In this work, green biosynthesis and upcycling waste were combined for silver nanoparticles (AgNP's) production from citrus reticulata peels as a new natural factories by bottom-up approaches, it was accomplished using a hot aqueous extract of citrus reticulata peels as a rapid, one-step, safe, economically and ecofriendly route. This work proved the capability of plant mediated PNgA ' s production firstly by color change of the extract after two hours, then the well dispersed spherical s'PNgA production with size 27 nm was proved by using techniques;ultra violet-visiable spectroscopy (UV-vis), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electronic microscope (SEM) coupled with energy dispersion x-ray (EDX).