Preparation of sulfur nanoparticles and investigating their activities against cancer cells

4^th World Congress on Cancer Science & Therapy

October 20-22, 2014 DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Chicago-North Shore Conference Center, USA

Mohammed Suleiman, Ayman Hussein and Anas Al-Ali

Accepted Abstracts: J Cancer Sci Ther

Abstract :

Sulfur is an important element has many practical applications in present as nanoparticles. Nanosize sulfur particles also have many important applications like in pharmaceuticals, medicine, synthesis of nano-composites for lithium batteries, modification of carbon nano tubes. Different methods were used for nano-sized particle synthesis; among those, chemical precipitation, electrochemical method, micro emulsion technique, composing of oil, surfactant, co-surfactant, aqueous phases with the specific compositions and ultrasonic treatment of sulfur-cystine solution. In this work Sulfur nanoparticles (SNPs) were prepared by a quick precipitation method with and without using a surfactant to stabilize the formed SNPs. The synthesized SNPs were characterized by XRD, SEM and TEM in order to confirm their sizes and structures.