Preparation of silver nanoparticles through the reduction of straw-extracted lignin and its antibacterial hydrogel

作     者：Lou Zhang Shuo Li Fu Tang Jingkai Zhang Yuetong Kang Hean Zhang Lidong Li 

作者机构：State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and MaterialsSchool of Materials Science and EngineeringUniversity of Science and Technology Beijing 

出 版 物：《International Journal of Minerals,Metallurgy and Materials》 (矿物冶金与材料学报(英文版))

年 卷 期：2025年第02期

页      面：504-514页

核心收录：

学科分类：081702[工学-化学工艺] 07[理学] 070205[理学-凝聚态物理] 08[工学] 0817[工学-化学工程与技术] 080501[工学-材料物理与化学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 0702[理学-物理学] 

基　　金：financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52203209) the State Key Laboratory of Solid Waste Reuse for Building Materials, China (No. SWR-2022-009) the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (No. FRF- IDRY2 2-012) 

摘      要：Silver nanoparticles(Ag NPs) have attracted attention in the field of biomaterials due to their excellent antibacterial ***, the reducing and stabilizing agents used for the chemical reduction of Ag NPs are usually toxic and may cause water *** this work, Ag NPs(31.2 nm in diameter) were prepared using the extract of straw, an agricultural waste, as the reducing and stabilizing agent. Experimental analysis revealed that the straw extract contained lignin, the structure of which possesses phenolic hydroxyl and methoxy groups that facilitate the reduction of silver salts into Ag NPs. The surfaces of Ag NPs were negatively charged due to the encapsulation of a thin layer of lignin molecules that prevented their aggregation. After the prepared Ag NPs were added to the precursor solution of acrylamide, free radical polymerization was triggered without the need for extra heating or light irradiation, resulting in the rapid formation of an Ag NP–polyacrylamide composite hydrogel. The inhibition zone test proved that the composite hydrogel possessed excellent antibacterial ability due to the presence of Ag NPs. The prepared hydrogel may have potential applications in the fabrication of biomedical materials, such as antibacterial dressings.