The biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles has been successfully conducted using
Plectonema boryanum UTEX 485,a filamentous cyanobacterium, reacted with aqueous AgNO
3 solutions (~560 mg/L Ag) at 25-100
C for up to 28days. The interaction of cyanobacteria with aqueous AgNO
3 promoted the precipitation of spherical silver nanoparticlesand octahedral (111) silver platelets (of up to 200 nm) in solutions. The mechanisms of silver nanoparticles viacyanobacteria could involve metabolic processes from the utilization of nitrate at 25
C and also organics releasedfrom the dead cyanobacteria at 25-100
C.