Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Once Upon a Time Silver
1.1: Through the History
1.1.1: The Importance of Names
1.1.2: Silver Diffusion in the Antiquity
1.1.3: Main Uses of Silver in the Past and the Present
1.1.3.1: Silverware and jewels
1.1.3.2: The coins around the world
1.1.3.3: Photography
1.1.3.4: Awards and mirrors
1.1.3.5: Brazing and soldering
1.1.3.6: Energy, electronics, medicine
1.1.4: Curiosities
1.2: Learn About Silver

1.2.1: Chemical and Physical Properties of Silver
1.2.2: Silver Extraction and Recovery Methods
1.2.3: Silver Compounds
1.2.4: Silver Coordination Compounds
1.3: Speaking Nano
1.3.1: Observation
1.3.2: Size Effect in Nanoparticles
1.3.2.1: Surface atoms
1.3.2.2: Quantum effect
1.3.2.3: Color
1.4: Today's Application of Silver Nanoparticles
Chapter 2: Methods for Silver Nanoparticles Production
2.1: Build or Tear Down?
2.1.1: Top-Down Approach
2.1.2: Bottom-Up Approach
2.2: What to Choose Between Chemical and Physical Way?
2.2.1: Physical Methods

2.2.1.1: Thermal evaporation
2.2.1.2: Spark discharge
2.2.1.3: Laser ablation deposition (LAD)
2.2.2: Chemical Methods
2.2.2.1: Chemical vapor deposition
2.2.2.2: Reducing agents
2.2.2.3: Radiation synthesis
2.2.2.4: Electrochemical
2.2.3: Biological Methods
2.3: Green Chemistry
Chapter 3: Textiles and AgNPs
3.1: Textiles Over the Centuries
3.2: Classification
3.2.1: Natural
3.2.1.1: Wool and silk
3.2.1.2: Flax and cotton
3.2.1.3: Others
3.2.1.4: The birth of the loom
3.2.2: Man-Made
3.2.2.1: Artificial fibers: rayon

3.2.2.2: Synthetic fibers: nylon, polyester, acrilic
3.3: Improve the Performance
3.3.1: Increased Fire Resistance or Flame Retardance
3.3.2: UV Protection
3.3.3: Water, Oil, and Dirt Repellent
3.3.4: Antimicrobial Coatings
3.4: Method to Functionalize AgNPs to Materials
3.4.1: Dipping
3.4.2: Sonochemical
3.4.3: Layer-by-Layer Deposition
Chapter 4: In situ Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles
4.1: A Long Time Ago
4.2: Colloids
4.2.1: Lyophilic and Lyophobic Colloids
4.3: Fast and Soft Reductant for Silver
4.3.1: The First One: Trisodium Citrate

4.3.1.1: Brief history
4.3.1.2: The mechanism of reduction
4.3.2: The Second One: Ascorbic Acid
4.3.2.1: Brief history
4.3.2.2: The mechanism of reduction
4.4: Experimental Section
4.4.1: Scanning Electron Microscope Images of Various Samples
4.4.1.1: Difference between dipping and in situ
4.5: Different Ways of Application: Wet and Spray
4.5.1: By Solution
4.5.2: By Spraying
Chapter 5: Antibacterial Properties of Silver Nanoparticles
5.1: Introduction
5.2: Kind of Bacteria
5.3: Antibiotics
5.3.1: How to Evaluate the Efficacy of an Antibiotic?