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exhibited growth inhibition for Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella
granulomatis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Lateef et al. 2015b). Nanoparticles as
pest control agents are applied for seed coating or as foliar spray. It could be utilized
not only as pesticides but also as carriers to control the release of chemical pesticides
from its formulation to reduce its environmental adverse impact (Ali et al. 2020;
Khan and Rizvi 2014).
6 Conclusion and Future Perspective
This chapter reports the development of the microbial synthesis of nanoparticles and
its role in environmental sustainability. The attention concerning green approach in
nanotechnology has gained more attraction in the recent years regarding its wide
range of advantages compared to chemical and physical processes such as environmental safety, cost efficient, applicability and easy scale-up. Thus, only the direction towards utilization of biogenic nanoparticles especially those that are mediated by microbes is a considerable sustainable environmental practice regarding to
its higher safety of compared to chemical and physical synthesized nanomaterials.
Several topics were addressed such as microbial synthesis of NPs and its advantages,
application of microbial-mediated NPs in agriculture and bioremediation. When the
energy issues have great importance from the sustainability point of view, the role of
biogenic NPs for energy preservation and biofuel production cannot be overemphasized. As biosensors and biomonitoring are promising environmental applications
of NPs, this chapter summarized the impact of microbial manufacturing of NPs on
advancement of environmental biosensing. However, bridging the gap between bench
studies and industrial level in the field of biogenic NPs for environmental applications still required a lot more research and pilot trials to improve the effectiveness
of these bioprocesses. To effectively accomplish these targets, further combined
research on screening for more efficient bionanofactories such as bacteria, actinomycetes, fungi, yeast, viruses, algae and even plants as well as more efforts to be
dedicated to optimizing parameters and methodologies for the utilization/extraction
of the biomatrices. Scaling up environmental utilization of NPs up today faces significant challenges such as controlling size, shape and crystallinity of produced nanomaterials as the actual bioformation mechanism is not fully understood yet. Developing
production of biogenic NPs is so far a challenging issue that required more research.
Although it looks less toxic, further researches to evaluate the toxicity behavior of
microbial-mediated NPs are still necessary.
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exhibited growth inhibition for Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella
granulomatis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Lateef et al. 2015b). Nanoparticles as
pest control agents are applied for seed coating or as foliar spray. It could be utilized
not only as pesticides but also as carriers to control the release of chemical pesticides
from its formulation to reduce its environmental adverse impact (Ali et al. 2020;
Khan and Rizvi 2014).
6 Conclusion and Future Perspective
This chapter reports the development of the microbial synthesis of nanoparticles and
its role in environmental sustainability. The attention concerning green approach in
nanotechnology has gained more attraction in the recent years regarding its wide
range of advantages compared to chemical and physical processes such as environmental safety, cost efficient, applicability and easy scale-up. Thus, only the direction towards utilization of biogenic nanoparticles especially those that are mediated by microbes is a considerable sustainable environmental practice regarding to
its higher safety of compared to chemical and physical synthesized nanomaterials.
Several topics were addressed such as microbial synthesis of NPs and its advantages,
application of microbial-mediated NPs in agriculture and bioremediation. When the
energy issues have great importance from the sustainability point of view, the role of
biogenic NPs for energy preservation and biofuel production cannot be overemphasized. As biosensors and biomonitoring are promising environmental applications
of NPs, this chapter summarized the impact of microbial manufacturing of NPs on
advancement of environmental biosensing. However, bridging the gap between bench
studies and industrial level in the field of biogenic NPs for environmental applications still required a lot more research and pilot trials to improve the effectiveness
of these bioprocesses. To effectively accomplish these targets, further combined
research on screening for more efficient bionanofactories such as bacteria, actinomycetes, fungi, yeast, viruses, algae and even plants as well as more efforts to be
dedicated to optimizing parameters and methodologies for the utilization/extraction
of the biomatrices. Scaling up environmental utilization of NPs up today faces significant challenges such as controlling size, shape and crystallinity of produced nanomaterials as the actual bioformation mechanism is not fully understood yet. Developing
production of biogenic NPs is so far a challenging issue that required more research.
Although it looks less toxic, further researches to evaluate the toxicity behavior of
microbial-mediated NPs are still necessary.