Mycosynthesis of Inorganic Nanoparticles and their Evaluation in Catalysis and Nano fertilization

Abstract

The impact of nanotechnology is increasing at tremendous pace due to its newlineremarkable potential. Nanoparticles are considered as the protagonist of the newlinenanotechnology revolution. Amid nanoparticles, inorganic nanoparticles are of special newlineinterest due to their unique and tuneable properties. In recent years, the surging demand of newlinenanoparticles has boosted unprecedented expansion of research for the development of newlinehigh yielding and sustainable synthesis methods which can deliver nanomaterials with newlinedesired characteristics. Unlike the well-established physico-chemical methods which have various limitations, biological methods inspired by mimicking natural biomineralization processes have great potential for nanoparticle synthesis. Of special interest,microorganisms isolated from metal rich regions develop resistance mechanism for their survival which can be exploited for synthesis of metal or metal oxide nanoparticles. Among various metal tolerant microorganisms, fungi represents a favourable natural machinery due to its large and most diverse secretome making it highly anticipated for oncell/ newlineextracellular synthesis of nanoparticles. Following this rationale and the hypothesis newlinethat well adapted fungi isolated from native metal rich soil conditions can be a better newlinesource for bio-inspired synthesis of metal nanoparticles the present work serves as the newlineinitial step in development of an eco-friendly method for synthesis of iron oxide and gold newlinenanoparticles (IONPs and Au NPs) by selecting a promising fungal isolate.