Silver Nanoparticle Applications

Silver nanoparticles: From bulk material to colloidal nanoparticles.- Synthesis and characterization of silver nanoparticles: Rationalizing silver nanoparticle synthesis.- SERS and plasmon mediated applications of silver nanoparticles: More than antenna effect.- Electron transfer mediated processes in silver nanoparticles: Uses and applications in photocatalysis.- Biomedical uses of silver nanoparticles: From Roman's wine cups to antiseptical skin scaffold.- Measuring the antimicrobial and cytotoxicity of silver nanoparticles: Ionic silver is not always equal to silver nanoparticles.

Dr. Emilio Isaac Alarcon received his PhD in Chemistry in 2009 (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile) with a dissertation on new protein based carriers for photodynamic therapy drugs, and since 2011 he is a research assistant and lecturer at University of Ottawa, Canada. Dr. Alarcon's research is mainly focused, but not limited, on the development and characterization of new hybrid-nanomaterials for tissue regeneration. He has published over 30 articles in top-peer review in different areas like nanomaterials, free radical chemistry, photodynamic therapy, and photochemistry.

Dr. May Griffith is Professor of Regenerative Medicine and Scientific Director of the Integrative Regenerative Medicine (IGEN) Centre at Linköping University (LiU), and Adjunct Professor, University of Ottawa, Canada. MG's research is in translational regenerative medicine, with special interests in biomaterials enhanced cell-based regeneration. She has successfully led the first-in-human translation into clinic of biosynthetic corneal implants that stimulated regeneration in an organ that normally does not regenerate, in a clinical trial of 10 patients. MG's biosynthetic materials have also been successfully tested in collaboration with other researchers for use in cardiovascular, skin and cartilage regeneration in animal models to date, in preparation for clinical translation. She has worked extensively with industry and her work has been published in top peer-reviewed journals, as well as profiled by the media, and has earned her a number of awards.

Dr. Klas Udekwu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the 'Karolinska Institutet' (KI) in Sweden and external associate of the Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research & Education (VIIBRE) in Nashville, USA.  KU's research interests are multidisciplinary in nature, spanning molecular microbiology, microbe-dependent neurodevelopment and stress, the population biology of