Green Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles and their Medicinal Application in Treatment of Cancer

Abstract

Study of nanoparticles has attracted the immense attention of researchers because of their wide applications in the medicine, chemical industries, and biotechnology. This paper highlights that plants and microbes can be a source of bio-compounds in nanoparticle synthesis in place of toxic chemicals. As this is an environmentally friendly approach following the principles of green synthesis which is cheap and is not toxic. Both sources provide antioxidant, anticancer, and antimicrobial properties which hold great importance in the manufacturing of NPs. This review aims to bring together the diversity of synthesized metallic nanoparticles mediated by plant extracts, fungi, algae, bacteria and yeasts. All the mentioned bio-resources contain biomolecule which includes protein and enzyme which serves the twin action of both reduction and capping of the synthesized nanoparticles. The synthesized NPs are characterized by using UV-visible spectrometry, FT-IR, XRD, TEM, SEM and EDX. Also, the biomedical application of the synthesized NPs is explored in the treatment of cancer.