A Spoonful of Sugar in Silver Nanoparticles to Regulate Their Toxicity

January 23, 2015

(Nanotechnology Now) – The use of colloidal silver to treat illnesses has become more popular in recent years, but its ingestion, prohibited in countries like the US, can be harmful to health. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute in Germany have now confirmed that silver nanoparticles are significantly toxic when they penetrate cells, although the number of toxic radicals they generate can vary by coating them with carbohydrates.