Green Chemistry Based Benign Routes for Nanoparticle Synthesis

Table 4

Major viral species for nanoparticle synthesis.

Microorganism	Nanoparticle	Location/morphology	References
Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV)	SiO2, CdS, PbS, and Fe2O3	Nanotubes on surface	[23]
M13 bacteriophage	ZnS and CdS	Quantum dots, nanowires	[24, 25]