Abstract

Water is a basic human need and has been heavily contaminated. Therefore, it becomes a concern to remove thepollutant and monitor its quality. The removal methods include precipitation, filtration, adsorption, and photodegradation. Meanwhile, the monitoring can be done by measuring and analyzing the contaminant using spectrophotometry and chromatography. Nevertheless, those methods usually need a complicated preparation, and are expensive.Thus, a simple method is necessary to overcome these drawbacks by developing a sensor. In recent years, the sensorperformance has been enhanced by using nanomaterials, such as silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). AgNPs can be synthesized using plant extracts through a green synthesis approach. Extracts of leaves, stems, roots, and fruits from variousplants have been successfully used as reducing agents in synthesis process and stabilizing the AgNPs. More importantly,the published articles also reported that the green synthesized nanoparticles can be applied as the sensor component formonitoring various water pollutants (both organic and inorganic). We have critically reviewed the potential of plantextract as a reducing agent of silver ions using different green synthetic methods. The characterizations of silvernanoparticles include the initial characterization (UV-visible spectrophotometry) and the advanced characterizations(FTIR, XRD, SEM, EDS, TEM, and DLS). This review also provides information about applications of AgNPs in sensorfor monitoring water pollution. Therefore, this review article delivers a point of view on the silver nanoparticledevelopment in recent decades, and it can be a reference for further study, especially for sensors

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The article was added to IASJ on 2023-11-10

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