“…Various methods such as green synthesis oxidation [2,9,19,27,43], chemical reduction [17,23,50], bacterial synthesis [4,7,35], fungal synthesis [42], laser ablation [8,16,48], CVD method [25,31,40,41,46], solvothermal [6,14], halogen-free synthesis [22,44] and seed-mediated synthesis [26,36] have been used for the synthesis of gold nanoparticles with different size, shapes and properties depending on the synthesis method and experimental conditions, as shown in the Table 1.…”