The Antimicrobial and Mosquitocidal Activity of Green Magnesium Oxide Nanoparticles Synthesized by an Aqueous Peel Extract of Punica granatum
, Khalid S. Alshallash 2,*, Mohammed I. Alghonaim 3, Ahmed M. Eid 1, Ahmed M. Alemam 1, Mohamed A. Awad 4 and Mohammed F. Hamza 5,6
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Manuscript number chemistry-2551193 entitled “The Antimicrobial and Mosquitocidal Activity of Green Synthesized Magnesium Oxide Nanoparticles by An Aqueous Peel Extract of Punica granatum”
In this work, authors prepared nanoparticles of MgO using extract of Punica granatum. They evaluated the antimicrobial activity against both gram negative and gram positive bacteria as well some fungi. Also, evaluated the mortality percentages of different pathogenic microbes at different concentration of MgO nanoparticles. However, one of the main drawbacks of this work is the lack of discussion of results. Also, there are some issues that must be addressed before publication.
Therefore, this manuscript cannot be accepted for publication in Chemistry in its actual form. Please, see below my comments.
Comments:
a) Authors must highlight the novelty of this work, since the preparation of MgO nanoparticles using natural extract has been widely reported.
b) Conclusions must be rewritten. First part seems an abstract.
c) In FTIR results, authors mention many groups but they do not describe where they from. Also, image of FTIR must be improved, spectra are overlapped.
d) Figure 4 and Table 1 are not necessary.
e) It would has been interesting if authors have varied parameters during the synthesis of MgO nanoparticles as extract concentration, amount of Mg salt, temperature, etc. in order to see how these parameters affect the morphology, size etc of nanoparticles as usually is done.
Language is O.K.
Author Response
Dear reviewer, thank you very much for your valuable comments. We revised the manuscript based on the recommended comments which were answered point-by-point as shown in the author's response file.
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Dear reviewer, thank you very much for your valuable comments. We revised the manuscript based on the recommended comments which were answered point-by-point as shown in the author's response file.
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
Manuscript number chemistry-2551193 entitled “The Antimicrobial and Mosquitocidal Activity of Green Synthesized Magnesium Oxide Nanoparticles by An Aqueous Peel Extract of Punica granatum”
Authors have addressed all my comments. Therefore, this manuscript can be accepted for publication in Chemistry in its actual form.
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