Facile synthesis and synergistic cytotoxic effect of Ag/Co-ZnO nanoparticles in epithelial breast cancer cells (opens in new tab)

Here in, silver-cobalt (Ag/Co) incorporated in ZnO nanoparticles (NPs), referred to as Ag/Co-ZnO NPs, were synthesized using a facile co-precipitation method. The as-synthesized samples were characterized using ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, field-emission scanning electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction analysis techniques. The optical band gap of ZnO and Ag/Co-ZnO NPs increased from 3.64 to 3.92 eV when the Ag/Co concentration was increased by ...