Plant-Mediated Green Synthesis of Iron Nanoparticles

Table 1

Size and morphology of iron nanoparticles synthesized by plant extracts.

Plant	Morphology	Size (nm)	Reference
Green tea	Spherical	5–15	[17]
Tea powder	Differs according to the quantity of tea extract		[18]
Green tea	Irregular clusters	40–60	[19]
Green tea, oolong tea, and black tea	Irregular spherical	20–40	[20]
Oolong tea	Spherical	40–50	[21]
Sorghum bran	Spherical	40–50	[22]
Eucalyptus	Spherical	50–80	[23]
Eucalyptus	Cubic	40–60	[24]
Eucalyptus	Spherical	20–80	[25]
Pomegranate	ND	100–200 nm	[26]
Plantain peel	Spherical	Less than 50 nm	[27]
Banana peel	ND	10–25	[28]
Dodonaea viscosa	Spherical	50–60	[29]
Tridax procumbens	Irregular spheres	80–100	[30]
GSP	ND	Around 30	[31]
Pomegranate, mulberry, and cherry	Spherical	10–30	[32]
Vine leaves, black tea leaves, and grape marc	ND	15–45	[33]
Terminalia chebula	Chain-like	Less than 80 nm	[34]
Eucalyptus tereticornis (A); Melaleuca nesophila (B) Rosmarinus officinalis (C)	Spherical (A and B); Aggregates like grapes (C)	40–60 (A & B)	[35]

Note. ND: not done.