Green Synthesis of Copper Nanoparticles: Evaluation of Catalytic and Antibacterial Activity

The objective of present study is to synthesize copper nanoparticles from Vitex negundo Linn., root bark extract as reducing and stabilizing agents. The synthesized nanoparticles were characterized by using UV-visible spectrophotometer, X-ray diffraction, FTIR, SEM and EDX. The results were shown that copper nanoparticles exhibited UV-visible absorption peak at around 550 nm. The XRD study confirmed that nanoparticles are crystalline in nature....