Tese_Tânia Vieira.pdf - Ubi Thesis

Chapter I - Introduction
Figure 1 – Applications of silver (right-hand size) and AgNPs (left-hand size) in medicine (Chaloupka et al.
2010).
Now, silver is an additive of consumer products (Chaloupka et al. 2010), like socks, shirts,
shoes, water filters, antiperspirants, combs, paints, washing machines (Chaloupka et al. 2010;
Nagy et al. 2011), dishwashers, refrigerators, toilet seats (Li et al. 2011), antibacterial sprays,
cosmetics, dietary supplements, cell phones, laptop keyboards, and children’s toys, among other
products, which purportedly exploit the antimicrobial properties of silver nanomaterials
(Marambio-Jones et al. 2010).
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