Green Chemistry Based Benign Routes for Nanoparticle Synthesis

Table 1

Major bacterial species that are used for nanoparticle synthesis.

Bacterial strains exploited	Types of nanoparticle synthesized	Location of synthesized nanoparticles	Critical size range (in nm)	References
Pseudomonas stutzeri	Silver	Intracellular	200	[3]
Lactobacillus	Titanium dioxide	Intracellular	15–35	[4]
Acinetobacter spp.	Magnetite	Extracellular	10–40	[5]
Pseudomonas aeruginosa	Gold	Extracellular	15–30	[6]
Escherichia coli	Cadmium sulphide	Intracellular	2–5	[7]
Rhodopseudomonas capsulata	Gold	Extracellular, both at pH 4 and 7	(50–400) at pH 4; (10–20) at pH 7	[8]