Silver nanoparticles have been of interest since the IV century AD due to their dichroic character when integrated into glass. Furthermore, in the present context, they have attracted increasing interest due to their unique physical, chemical, and biological properties compared to their macroscaled counterparts. Today, the properties of NPs have been exploited in a wide range of potential applications such as in nanomedicine, cosmetics, renewable energies, environmental treatments, and biomedicine. Silver NPs have become increasingly popular, not only in nanobiotechnology with applications as antimicrobial agents in wound dressing, textile, and medical devices but also in technologies that require localized surface plasmon resonance for the detection of biological molecules. On the other hand, material scientists integrate them into other materials to obtain enhanced properties, as, for example, in solar cells where silver NPs are used as plasmonic light traps. These properties therefore make them valuable in applications such as inks, microelectronics, solar cells, medical imaging, and waste management. Besides, they exhibit a broad spectrum of bactericidal and fungicidal activity making them extremely popular in a diverse range of consumer products, including plastics, soaps, pastes, food and textiles, and food containers, thus increasing their market value. Thereupon, understanding their toxicity is necessary and timely.

We invite nanotechnologists from all fields to contribute original papers in the topic. Articles from diverse fields such as physics, chemistry, and biotechnology are expected to provide readers and coworkers novel aspects of silver nanoparticles. Our aim is to create a comprehensive special issue on their synthesis, characterization, and application, which would serve as a reference to coworkers in the field. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Synthesis of Ag nanoparticles: green, physical, and chemical synthesis routes recently developed
• Ag nanoparticle core-shell nanocomposites
• Hybrid nanostructures with Ag nanoparticles
• Optical properties of Ag nanoparticles
• Antimicrobial properties of nano Ag
• Ag nanoparticles as a catalyst in environmental treatment: water and air disinfectation
• Toxicology of Ag nanoparticles
• Ag nanoparticle composites in magnetism and superconductivity

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