Biomedical Applications of Silver Nanoclusters (Review)

This review summarizes fragmentary data on the chemical characteristics of silver atoms in nanoclusters and nanoparticles and shows successful examples of their practical application for analytical purposes as complexes with a variety of organic natural compounds. Recent foreign publications on silver nanoparticles and their mono- or bimetallic clusters with gold atoms that exist as stable colloidal species or chemically bonded complexes with a variety of organic and inorganic sorbents and are widely applied in genetic and biochemical research in addition to clinical practice are reviewed.