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RE: Engineering A Better Band-Aid: Antibacterial Paper Created With Silver Coated Gold Nanoparticles

in #science7 years ago

In the future, silver may just prove to be our only defence against super-bugs. With so many people abusing antibiotics it's a catastrophe waiting to happen.

It's amazing how many uses silver has and yet it's still so undervalued. Most of these uses are in very tiny amounts and are almost impossible to recover, or just not worth the cost, so that silver is basically lost.

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Silver still has unresolved toxicity issues, it is not the magic elixer some people make it out to be. With a significant amount of work perhaps those toxicity problems can be overcome. However right now the data still leaves me uncomfortable.

Thanks for reading!