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Sustainable synthesis of bionanomaterials using non-native plant extracts for maintaining ecological balance: a computational bibliography analysis
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lternative approach to synthesizing less or nontoxic nanomaterials, compared to conventional physical and
chemical approaches. Among these biological methods, plant-mediated approaches (phytosynthesis) are reported
to be highly beneficial for large-scale, nontoxic nanomaterial synthesis. However, plant-mediated synthesis of
nanomaterials using native plant extract can lead to bioprospecting issues and deforestation challenges. On the
other hand, non-native or invasive plants are non-indigenous to a particular geographic location that can grow
and spread rapidly, ultimately disrupting the local and endogenous plant communities or ecosystems. Thus,
controlling or eradicating these non-native plants before they damage the ecosystem is necessary. Even though
mechanical, chemical, and biological approaches are available to control non-native plants, all these methods
possess certain limitations, such as environmental toxicity, disturbance in the nutrient cycle, and loss of genetic
integrity. Therefore, non-native plants were recently proposed as a novel sustainable source of phytochemicals
for preparing nanomaterials via green chemistry, mainly metallic nanoparticles, as an alternative to native,
agriculture-based, or medicinal plants. This work aims to cover a literature gap on plant-mediated bio nanomaterial synthesis with an overview and bibliography analysis of non-native plants via novel data mining
and advanced visualization tools. In addition, the potential of non-native plants as a sustainable, green
chemistry-based alternative for bionanomaterial preparation for maintaining ecological balance, the mechanism
of formation via phytochemicals, and their possible applications to promote their control and spread were also
discussed. The bibliography analysis revealed that only an average of 4 articles have been published in the last 10
years (2013–2023) on non-native/invasive plants for nanomaterial synthesis, which shows the significance of
this article.
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Non-native plants Nanomaterials Sustainable synthesis Phytochemistry Medical applications . Centro de Química da Madeira Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e da Engenharia
Citation
Jeevanandam, J., & Rodrigues, J. (2024). Sustainable synthesis of bionanomaterials using non-native plant extracts for maintaining ecological balance: A computational bibliography analysis. Journal of Environmental Management, 358, 120892.
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Elsevier