“…Synthesis method of nanoparticles plays an important role in its technological advancement as it is the primary step to tune their physical, electronic, and optical properties of the synthesized nanoparticles by varying size, shape and surface chemistry (Wiley et al 2007;Sharma et al 2009;Naik et al 2002). Conventional procedures such as chemical reduction (Szczepanowicz et al 2010), microwave-aided method (Zhu et al 2013) and photocatalytic reaction (Scaiano et al 2009) involve a variety of toxic chemicals like surfactants, polymers, starch, citrates, hydrides, lipids, etc., for synthesis of stable and agglomeration-free Ag nanomaterials but the by-products of these procedures were found to be hazardous to animals and environment (Welton 1999;Vinod et al 2011;Chen et al 2005;Bakshi et al 2008;Bakshi 2009;Esumi et al 2000). Recently, biological methods using biological microorganism, plant extract, and enzymes have proved itself an easy, cost-effective and ecofriendly alternative synthesis route of metallic nanoparticle compared to conventional procedures (Li et al 2007;Mittal et al 2013;Tamulya et al 2013).…”