Green Biosynthesis of Silver Nanoparticles Using Musa Acuminata Aqueous Flower Extract and Its Anti-Microbial Activities

Nanomaterials have gained much relevant in the world of science due to their applications in catalysis, wastewater treatment and desulfurization of fossil fuels, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and medicine. The green approach of nanoparticle synthesis employs the use of non-toxic reagents and is now preferred to the other methods which include thermal decomposition, electrochemical, photochemical, microwave assisted process chemical methods. Silver nanoparticle was biosynthesized using flower extract of Musa acuminata as reducing and capping agents. The synthesized silver nanoparticle was confirmed by the colour change after addition of the flower extract of Musa acuminata into silver nitrate solution. The silver nanoparticle was characterized by UV–Visible spectrophotometer, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDX), and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrophotometer. The result of SEM reveals the formation of silver nanoparticle which was spherical in shape with varying sizes ranged between 20-30 nm. The biosynthesized silver nanoparticle gave absorption at 375 nm, revealed silver metal as the most abundant element, vibrational bands indicating the presence of quinone, amides and conjugated ketone which served as reducing and capping agent. The bio-synthesized silver nanoparticles revealed potent antibacterial activity and the economical synthesis of silver nanoparticle from aqueous flower extract of Musa acuminata which is ecofriendly. Keywords :Green synthesis; silver nanoparticles; flower extract; capping agents; antibacterial activity; scanning electron microscopy. DOI : 10.7176/CMR/11-7-02 Publication date :September 30 th 2019