Bacteria in Nanoparticle Synthesis: Current Status and Future Prospects

Table 1

Green biosynthesis of NPs using bacteria.

Bacteria	Nanoparticle	Size (nm)	Morphology	References
Aeromonas sp. SH10	Silver	6.4	—	[17]
Bacillus cereus	Silver	20–40	Spherical	[18]
Bacillus megatherium D01	Gold	1.9 ± 0.8	Spherical	[19]
Bacillus subtilis 168	Gold	5–25	Octahedral	[20, 21]
Bacillus subtilis	Silver	5–50	Spherical and triangular	[22]
Clostridium thermoaceticum	Cadmium sulfide	—	Amorphous	[23]
Corynebacterium sp. SH09	Silver	10–15	—	[24]
Desulfobacteraceae	Zinc sulfide	2–5	Spherical	[25]
Desulfovibrio desulfuricans	Palladium and selenium	—	—	[26, 27]
Desulfovibrio vulgaris	Gold, uranium, and chromium	—	—	[28]
Desulfovibrio magneticus; strain RS-1	Magnetite	Up to 30	Crystalline	[29]
Enterobacter cloacae	Silver and selenium	—	—	[26]
Escherichia coli	Cadmium sulfide	2–5	Wurtzite crystal	[30]
Escherichia coli	Silver	8-9	Spherical	[31]
Escherichia coli DH5	Silver	10–100	Spherical	[32]
Escherichia coli DH5	Gold	25 ± 8	Spherical, triangular, and quasi-hexagonal	[33]
Escherichia coli MC4100	Gold	Less than 10 to 50	Spherical, triangular, hexagonal, and rod shape	[34]
Geobacillus sp.	Gold	5–50	Quasi-hexagonal	[35]
Geovibrio ferrireducens	Gold	—	—	[28]
Klebsiella aerogenes	Cadmium sulfide	20–200	Crystalline	[36]
Klebsiella pneumonia	Silver	28.2–122; (average size of 52.2)	Spherical	[37]
Lactobacillus strains	Gold	20–50 and above 100	Crystalline, hexagonal, triangular, and cluster	[38]
Lactobacillus strains	Silver	15–500	Crystalline, hexagonal, triangular, and cluster	[38]
Lactobacillus strains	Silver-gold alloys	100–300	Crystalline and cluster	[38]
Lactobacillus strains	Titanium	40–60	Spherical	[39]
Lactobacillus casei subsp. casei	Silver	25–50	Spherical	[12]
Magnetospirillum magnetotacticum	Magnetite	—	Cluster (folded-chain and flux-closure ring)	[40]
Nocardiopsis sp. MBRC-1	Silver	~45	Spherical	[41]
Plectonema boryanum UTEX 485	Gold	10–25 and; ~1–10 and; 10 to 6000	Cubic and octahedral Platelet	[42, 43]
Pseudomonas aeruginosa	Gold	15–30	—	[44]
Pseudomonas aeruginosa	Lanthanum	—	Crystalline and needle-like	[12, 14]
Pseudomonas fluorescens	Gold	50–70	Spherical	[45]
Pseudomonas putida; NCIM 2650	Silver	~70	Spherical	[46]
Pseudomonas; stutzeri AG259	Silver	35–46 and; up to 200	Hexagonal, equilateral triangle, crystalline silver, and monoclinic silver sulfide acanthite	[47]
Rhodobacter sphaeroides	Zinc sulfide	Average diameter of 8	Spherical	[48]
Rhodopseudomonas capsulata	Gold	10–20	Nanoplate and spherical	[15, 49]
Rhodopseudomonas; palustris	Cadmium sulfide	8.01 ± 0.25	Crystalline, face-centered cubic	[50]
Serratia nematodiphila	Silver	10–31	spherical, and crystalline	[51]
Shewanella algae	Platinum	5	elemental	[52]
Shewanella algae strain BRY	Gold	Various sizes changed with pH	—	[28]
Shewanella putrefaciens; (Gs-15)	Magnetite	10–50	Fine-grained crystal	[53]
Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus TOR-39	Magnetite,; cobalt, nickel, and chromium	—	Octahedral	[13, 54]