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RE: Engineering A Better Band-Aid: Antibacterial Paper Created With Silver Coated Gold Nanoparticles
This study shows the potential use of the coated paper as a food antimicrobial packing material for longer shelf life, that's great thanks for sharing.
Indeed, there are a lot of potential exciting applications for technology like this. I think further work will help deal with some of the toxicity issues and we will have something really great. However it doesn't seem ready for prime time just yet. Still it's great work :D
Wanna know the only problem? Silver's about to cost too much to use.
Well these nanoparticles are really small, so the actual amount of silver necessary would be quite limited. It might end up still being cost effective, even with a drastically more expensive cost to silver.
You know the fundamentals of silver, and who it's competitors are? Trust me, this application will get the boot. Silver is so rare, and about to be released from suppression.
I know nothing of the markets of precious metals TBH.
Silver is leveraged 500 to 1 paper contracts to physical. It is used in industry heavily, including solar. 91% of all mined silver is gone. it's traditionally 12:1 price with gold, currently 70:1. There are people with charges now for rigging silver. JP morgan suppresses the price with paper contracts, and buys up all the physical they can.
It's used in medical, levitation, gravitrons, precision electronics (CERN, etc). It's rarer than gold, by a lot. It's used in cool stuff like this.
Interesting, thanks for the info :)
NP. Go buy at least a few silver eagles and take a gamble, I'm right. I could go into my background more, but I can just say this is hundreds of hours of research or more, and deep insight to how the world actually works to make my predictions. We are nearing end game and the certainty is near 100%. Buy some eagles.
Well, if you want a pro tip to make you rich, go buy physical silver right now. Thank me later.