Bioinspired Advances in Nanomaterials for Sustainable Agriculture

Table 1

Examples of plant-based nanoparticles, morphology, and applications.

Prepared nanometal	Extracted from plant	Size	Shape	Application	Ref
Silver	Alstonia macrophylla	70 nm	Spherical	Reduction of 4-nitrophenol and p-nitroaniline	[22]
Silver	Guiera senegalensis	50 nm	Spherical		[23]
Gold	Artemisia dracunculus	91 nm	Hexagonal and triangular	Reduce 4-nitrophenol	[24]
Palladium	Chitosan-tannin	6.01 nm	Spherical	Degradation of Congo red	[25]
Iron	Lagerstroemia speciosa	50–100 nm	Spherical	Degradation of methylene blue	[26]
Copper	Plantago asiatica	7–35 nm	Spherical	Cyanation of aldehydes	[27]
Ag/Au	Silybum marianum	40 nm	Spherical	Reduction of 4-nitrophenol	[28]
Ag/Fe	Palm date fruit extract	5–40 nm	Disks	Degradation of bromothymol blue	[29]