Green Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles Mediated by Bee Products

Recently, several investigations have shown that the high antioxidant potential of honey can also be exploited to develop new approaches to the efficient production and processing of nanomaterials [2-4], which offer interesting advantages over the conventional routes: they are quite simple, economically competitive and reduce risks to human health and the environment [5]. In addition, these greenchemical procedures provide new methods for the functionalization of nanostructures, especially for applications in biomedicine including drug delivery and tissue imaging [2, 5].