“…Nouri et al (2020) reported that the presence of alkene, amide, alcohol, alkaloids, flavonoids, phenol, proteins, saccharides, steroids, saponins, sugar, and tannins in Mentha aquatica leaf extract induced the biosynthesis of spherical AgNP. However, Khoshnamvand et al (2019) reported formation of spherical, ellipsoidal, and hexagonal AgNP using an Allium ampeloprasum leaf extract, while cubic (size ~ 68.06 nm), flower shaped (size 25 nm), hexagonal (size 20-80 nm), rectangular flakes (size 7-24 nm), and truncated triangular shaped (size 10-30 nm) AgNP were biosynthesized when using Andrographis echioides leaf extract (Elangovan et al 2015), Chrysophyllum oliviforme leaf extract (Anju Varghese et al 2015), Alpinia officinarum Rhizome extract (Li et al 2020), Waltheria americana Root extract (Deshi et al 2016), and Platanus orientalis leaf extract (Al-Thabaiti et al 2015), respectively. Some researchers used additional chemicals including cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), amphiphilic molecules, surfactants, anionic, cationic and Gemini for shape-controlled AgNP biosynthesis (Al-Thabaiti et al 2015).…”