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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Pharmacol.
Sec. Experimental Pharmacology and Drug Discovery
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fphar.2025.1533721
This article is part of the Research Topic Advancements in Bio-Interface Modulation for Personalized Pharmacological Outcomes View all articles
Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles using Syzygium cumini leaves extract for antibacterial and photodegradation activity
Provisionally accepted
Farooq Aziz 1,2
Muhammad Imran 3
Zahid Usman 4*
Qandeel Khalid 5
Allah Bakhsh Gulshan 2 Muhammad Naeem Khan 6 Hafiz Tariq Masood 1 Muhammad Rafique 1- 1 University of Sahiwal, Sahiwal, Punjab, Pakistan
- 2 Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab, Pakistan
- 3 King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia
- 4 University of Education Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
- 5 Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
- 6 University of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
This work focuses on facile and eco-friendly green synthesis of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) using Syzygium cumini leaves extract, offering strong capping and reducing abilities. The synthesized pure silver nanoparticles were characterized to determine the particle size, chemical stability, morphology, crystallinity, and optical response. AgNPs exhibited an absorbance peak at 435 nm via UV-visible spectroscopy with a 20 nm particle diameter and a zeta potential of -34 mV, demonstrating that the prepared AgNPs made a stable dispersion.XRD confirmed the face-centered cubical symmetry of these nanoparticles. Furthermore, AgNPs expressed good antibacterial activity against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. Furthermore, AgNPs revealed higher photocatalytic degradation (83%) of Rhodamine B under sunlight within 1 hour. Therefore, Syzygium cumini leaves extract can be used as a green reducing and capping agent to prepare AgNPs with antibacterial and photodegradation activities.
Keywords: silver nanoparticles, Rhodamine B, Antibacterial activity, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli
Received: 24 Nov 2024; Accepted: 19 Feb 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Aziz, Imran, Usman, Khalid, Gulshan, Naeem Khan, Tariq Masood and Rafique. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Zahid Usman, University of Education Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
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