Polysaccharides are particularly attractive in biomedical applications due to its biodegradability and biocompatibility.
In addition to its ecofriendly effects and easy processing into different hydrogel shapes,
made polysaccharides used on a large scale as suitable media for preparation of silver nanoparticles
(AgNPs). In spite of, most of polysaccharides are water insoluble, butit has shown to be quite efficient capping
agents and/or nanoreactor matrices for production of AgNPs. Several methods have been developed
to get the benefit of multi-functionality for polysaccharides’ macromolecules in preparation of AgNPs.
Therefore, recently, preparation of nanosilver using different polysaccharides have been the focus of an
exponentially increasing number of works devoted to develop nanocomposites by blending AgNPs with
different polysaccharides matrices. The current review represents a wide survey for the published studies
which interested in using of polysaccharides in nanosilver preparations.