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    Silver nanoparticles have various medical and catalytic applications. They can be used in burn treatment, dental materials, and water treatment. Silver nanoparticles are also effective catalysts, enhancing the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide into oxygen. They catalyze the oxidation of ethylene to ethylene oxide and methanol to formaldehyde. Silver nanoparticles immobilized on silica spheres have been shown to catalyze the reduction of dyes by sodium borohydride.

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    Silver nanoparticles have various medical and catalytic applications. They can be used in burn treatment, dental materials, and water treatment. Silver nanoparticles are also effective catalysts, enhancing the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide into oxygen. They catalyze the oxidation of ethylene to ethylene oxide and methanol to formaldehyde. Silver nanoparticles immobilized on silica spheres have been shown to catalyze the reduction of dyes by sodium borohydride.

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    Silver nanoparticles have various medical and catalytic applications. They can be used in burn treatment, dental materials, and water treatment. Silver nanoparticles are also effective catalysts, enhancing the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide into oxygen. They catalyze the oxidation of ethylene to ethylene oxide and methanol to formaldehyde. Silver nanoparticles immobilized on silica spheres have been shown to catalyze the reduction of dyes by sodium borohydride.

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    Medical applications
    One use of silver ion or metallic silver as well as silver nanoparticles can be exploited in medicine for
    burn treatment, dental materials, coating stainless steel materials, water treatment, sunscreen lotions,
    etc (Dura´n et al., 2007).

    Catalysis applications
    Nanocatalysis has recently been a rapidly growing field which involves the use of nanoparticles as
    catalysts. It is well known that metals such as Au, Ag and Pt and metal ions can catalyzed the
    decomposition of H2O2 to oxygen Merga et al. (2007). It was observed, when the Ag colloid was
    injected, chemiluminescence emission from the luminal-H 2O2 system was greatly enhanced (Guo et
    al., 2008). Silver is also the most popular catalyst for the oxidation of ethylene to ethylene

    Table 1. Applications of silver nanoparticles in pharmaceutics, medicine and dentistry (Caro et al., 2010).

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    oxide and methanol to formaldehyde as catalysts. It is well known that metals such as Au, Ag and Pt
    and metal ions can catalyzed the decomposition of H 2O2 to oxygen. It was observed, when the Ag
    colloid was injected, chemilumines- cence emission from the luminal-H 2O2 system was greatly
    enhanced. Silver is also the most popular catalyst for the oxidation of ethylene to ethylene oxide and
    methanol to formaldehyde (Guo et al., 2008). Silver nanoparticles immobilized on silica spheres have
    been tested for their ability to catalyze the reduction of dyes by sodium borohydride (NaBH 4).
    Catalysis of dyes was chosen as it is easy to detect a change in color when the dyes are reduced. In
    the absence of silver nanoparticles, the sample was almost stationary showing very little or no
    reduction of the dyes. Figure 4 shows how the absorbance spectrum of the dyes decreases when
    the dyes are reduced (Jiang et al., 2005).

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