Green Route Synthesis of Copper Oxide Nanoparticles Against MCF-7 Cell Line (Breast Cancer)

Abstract

Growing nanostructures by green synthesis is an attractive method with a lot of applications, such as antibacterial, anticancer, antifungal and water treatment, etc. Copper oxide nanoparticles have been fabricated using the extract of Aloe Barbandanum, famous with the name of Aloe vera. These nanoparticles are important due to their applications in medical sciences. Structural, optical, compositional, and morphological properties of synthesized nanoparticles were studied and reported here. The phases and crystallite size were determined using X-ray Diffraction and the UV-visb was used to find out the direct bandgap and the absorbance near the visible range. Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy spectra confirmed the presence of a strong band of metal oxide near 606 cm-1. Using Scanning Electron Microscope the average grain size was obtained as small as 60 nm. These fabricated CuO NPs were tested for their possible uses against the MCF-7 cell line (breast cancer cells) and results are presented.