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NP
Microbial agent
Strain source
Microbial
agent
type
Size
(nm)
Morphology
Crystal
structure
Application
Reference
Ag
Phenerochaete
chrysosporium
MTCC-787
Institute of
Microbial
Technology
(IMTECH),
Chandigarh
Fungal
34–90
Spherical
–
Antibacterial
Saravanan et al.
(2018a)
Ag
Bacillus endophyticus
SCU-L
saline soil, China
Bacterial
5.1 Spherical
Cubic
face-centers
Antibacterial
Gan et al. (2018)
Ag
Bacillus
sp. SBT8
Soil samples, Turkey Bacterial 1–20
Spherical and
pseudo-spherical
–
–
Yurtluk et al. (2018)
Ag
Bacillus mojavensis
BTCB15
Soil samples,
Pakistan
Bacterial 2.3
Irregular
Face-centered
cubic
Antimicrobial Iqtedar et al. (2019)
ZrO2 Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Department of
Bioengineering,
NIT-Agartala
Bacterial 15
Spherical
Monoclinic
and tetragonal
Tetracycline
adsorption
Debnath et al. (2020)
CdO Penicillium oxalicum
Quaid-i-Azam
University,
Islamabad, Pakistan
Fungal
40–60
Spherical
Octahedral
Antimicrobial Azam et al. (2020)
Ag
Trichoderma atroviride
Plants at Oman
Fungal
10–15
Spherical
–
Antibacterial
Abdel-Azeem et al.
(2020)