Review Article
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] |
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