Fabrication of Metal Nanoparticles from Fungi and Metal Salts: Scope and Application

Siddiqi, Khwaja Salahuddin; Husen, Azamal

doi:10.1186/s11671-016-1311-2

Table 1 Engineered metal nanoparticles of varying size and shape fabricated from fungal and yeast species

From: Fabrication of Metal Nanoparticles from Fungi and Metal Salts: Scope and Application

Fungi and Yeast	Nanoparticles	Size (nm)	Shape	Location	References
Alternaria alternate	Au	12 ± 5	Spherical, triangular, hexagonal	Extracellular	[25]
Aspergillus clavatus	Au	24.4 ± 11	Triangular, spherical and hexagonal	Extracellular	[26]
A. flavus	Ag	8.92	Spherical	Cell wall	[27]
A. fumigatus	ZnO	1.2–6.8	Spherical and hexagonal	Extracellular	[28]
A. fumigatus	Ag	–	–	Extracellular	[29]
A. niger	Au	12.8 ± 5.6	Spherical, elliptical	–	[30]
A. niger	Au	10–20	Polydispersed	Extracellular	[31]
A. oryzae TFR9	FeCl₃	10–24.6	Spherical	–	[32]
A. oryzae var. viridis	Au	10–60	Various shapes (cell-free filtrate), mostly spherical (biomass)	Mycelial surface	[33]
A. sydowii	Au	8.7–15.6	Spherical	Extracellular	[34]
A. terreus	Ag	1–20	Spherical	Extracellular	[35]
A. tubingensis	Ca₃P₂O₈	28.2	Spherical	Extracellular	[36]
Aureobasidium pullulans	Au	29 ± 6	Spherical	Intracellular	[37]
Candida albicans	Au	5	Monodispersed spherical	Cell-free extract	[38]
	Au	20–40	Spherical	–	[39]
	Au	60–80	Non spherical	–	[39]
C. glabrata	CdS	20 Å, 29 Å	Hexamer	Intra- and extracellular	[40]
C. glabrata	CdS	–	–	Intracellular	[41]
Cladosporium cladosporioides	Ag	10–100	Spherical	–	[42]
Colletotrichum sp.	Au	8–40	Spherical	Mycelial surface	[43]
Coriolus versicolor	Au	20–100, 100–300	Spherical and ellipsoidal	Intra- and extracellular	[44]
Coriolus versicolor	Ag	25–75, 444–491	Spherical	Intra- and extracellular	[45]
Cylindrocladium floridanum	Au	19.05	Spherical	Extracellular	[46]
Cylindrocladium floridanum	Au	5–35	Spherical	Outer surface of the cell wall	[47]
Epicoccum nigrum	Au	5–50	–	Intra- and extracellular	[48]
Fusarium oxysporum	Pt	70–180	Rectangular, triangular, spherical and aggregates	–	[49]
	CdS	–	–	Extracellular	[50]
	Ag	–	–	Extracellular	[51]
	Ag	20–50	Spherical	Extracellular	[14]
	Au	2–50		-	[52, 53]
	Au	8–40	Spherical, triangular	Extracellular	[54]
	PbCO₃, CdCO₃	120–200	Spherical	Extracellular	[55]
	SrCO₃	10–50	Needlelike	Extracellular Extracellular	[56]
	CdSe	9–15	Spherical	Extracellular	[57]
	CdS	5–20	Spherical	Extracellular	[58]
	TiO₂	6–13	Spherical	Extracellular	[59]
	BaTiO₃	4–5	Spherical	Extracellular	[60]
	ZrO₂	3–11	Spherical		[61]
F. semitectum	Au	10–80	Spherical	Extracellular	[62]
Hansenula anomala	Au	14	–	–	[63]
Helminthosporum solani	Au	2–70	Spheres, rods, triangles, pentagons, pyramids, stars	Extracellular	[64]
Hormoconis resinae	Au	3–20	Spherical	Extracellular	[65]
Macrophomina phaseolina	Ag	5–40	Spherical	Cell-free filtrate	[144]
Neurospora crassa	Au	32 (3–100)	Spherical	Intracellular	[66]
Pediococcus pentosaceus	Ag	–	–	Extracellular	[67]
	Au	–	–	Intracellular	[68]
Penicillium brevicompactum	Au	10–60	Spherical, triangular and hexagonal	Extracellular	[69]
P. fellutanum	Ag	5–25	Spherical	Extracellular	[70]
P. nagiovense AJ12	Ag	25 ± 2.8	Spherical	Cell-free filtrate	[15]
P. rugulosum	Au	20–80	Spherical, triangular, exagonal	–	[71]
P. rugulosum		20–40	Spherical
Penicillium sp. 1–208	Au	30–50	Spherical	Cell filtrate	[72]
Phanerochaete chrysosporium	Au	10–100	Spherical	Extracellular	[73]
Phoma glomerata	Ag	60–80	Spherical	–	[74]
Pichia jadinii	Au	<100	Spherical	Cytoplasm	[7]
Pleurotus sajor caju	Ag	30.5	Spherical	Extracellular	[75]
Rhizopus oryzae	Au	16–25	Spherical	Cell-free filtrate	[76]
Saccharomyces cerevisiae	Au	15–20 30	Spherical	Cell wall Cytoplasm	[77]
Schizosaccharomyces pombe	CdS	18 Å, 29 Å	–	Intra- and extracellular	[40]
S. pombe	CdS	1–1.5	Hexagonal	Intracellular	[78]
S. pombe	CdS			Intracellular	[79]
Sclerotium rolfsii	Au	25.2 ± 6.8	Spherical		[80]
Trichoderma asperellum	Ag	13–18	Nanocrystalline	Extracellular	[81]
T. koningii	Au	30–40	Small spheres to polygons	–	[82]
T. koningii	Au	10–14	Spheres	Cell-free filtrate	[83]
T. reesei	Ag	5–50	–	Extracellular	[84]
T. viride	Ag	5–40	Spherical	Extracellular	[85]
Verticillium sp.	Au	–	–	Intracellular	[86]
Verticillium sp.	Au	20 ± 8	Spherical	Cell wall and cytoplasmic membrane	[87]
V. volvacea	Au	20–150	Triangular, spherical, hexagonal	–	[88]
Yarrowia lipolytica NCIM 3589	Au	15	Hexagonal, triangular	Associated with cell wall	[89]
Y. lipolytica NCIM 3589	Au		Various shape depending on Au³⁺ concentration	Intracellular	[90]

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