Proficient dye removal from water using biogenic silver nanoparticles prepared through solid-state synthetic route.

An environmentally benign, one-pot and highly scalable method was presented to produce biogenic silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) using the solid-state synthetic route. Four plant-derived candidate bio-reductants (, and ) were investigated to compare the efficiency of solid-state route and typical solution method. was selected as the best plant resource to produce totally pure and uniform Ag NPs (average diameter of 15 nm) without any aggregation.