Dioscorea oppositifolia Mediated Synthesis of Gold and Silver Nanoparticles with Catalytic Activity

Sougata Ghosh^1*, Sonal P Gurav¹, Ashwini N Harke¹, Maliyackal Jini Chacko¹, Komal A Joshi², Aarti Dhepe², Chaitanya Charolkar³, Vaishali Shinde³, Rohini Kitture⁴, Rohini Kitture⁵, Vijay Singh Parihar⁵, Kaushik Banerjee⁶, Narayan Kamble⁶, Jayesh Bellare⁷ and Balu A Chopade^8*

¹Department of Microbiology, Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Ganeshkhind, Pune-411016, India

²Institute of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune-411007, India

³Department of Chemistry, Garware Research Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune-411007, India

⁴Department of Applied Physics, Defense Institute of Advanced Technology, Girinagar, Pune-411025, India

⁵New Chemistry Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Jakkur, Bengaluru 560064, India

⁶National Referral Laboratory, ICAR-National Research Centre for Grapes, Manjri Farm, Pune 412 307, India

⁷Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai-400076, India

⁸Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad-431004, India

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