Green Chemistry Based Benign Routes for Nanoparticle Synthesis

Table 3

Extracellular synthesis of nanoparticles from fungal species.

Fungal strain	Type of nanoparticle	Morphology and size	References
Fusarium oxysporum	Au	Spherical and triangular, 20–40 nm	[13]
Colletotrichum sp.	Au	Spherical, 20–40 nm	[14]
Aspergillus niger	Ag	Spherical, 20 nm	[15]
Volvariella volvacea	Ag and Au	Spherical and hexagonal, 20–150 nm	[16]
Penicillium fellutanum	Ag	Spherical, 5–25 nm	[17]
Fusarium oxysporum	CdSe	Spherical, 9–15 nm	[18, 19]
Fusarium oxysporum	Magnetite	Quasi-spherical, 20–50 nm	[20]
Fusarium oxysporum	Si, Ti, and Zr	Spherical, 5–15 nm	[21, 22]