Review Article
Insights into Nanopesticides for Ticks: The Superbugs of Livestock
Table 2
Characteristics of salient nanopesticides prepared from arthropods.
| Bioactive material | Metal | Metallic nanoparticles | Maximum absorbance wavelength (nm) | Shapes of the nanoparticles |
| Bee honey | Silver (Ag) | AgNPs | UV-vis spectroscopy and FTIR show max absorbance at 420 nm | Revealed by TEM circular shape 4 nm, XRD nanocrystallity 6 nm | Bee honey | Gold (Au) | AuNPs | UV-vis spectroscopy max absorbance 541 nm | TEM shows anisotropic shape of rod, sphere, and triangle XRD shows crystalline shape with 15 nm | Cob web | Silver (Ag) | AgNps | UV-vis spectroscopy and SAED show max absorbance at 436 nm | 3-50 nm, spherical |
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FTIR: Fourier-transform infrared; TEM: transmission electron microscopy; XRD: X-ray crystallography; SAED: selected area electron diffraction.
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