Table 7.

Antifungal properties of AgNPs

Biological entity used for reduction	Fungal speciesused as test organism	Characterization	Reference
Green and black tea leaves	Aspergillus flavus, A. parasiticus	UV-vis, SEM, FTIR, EDX	231
Waste dried grass	Fusarium solani, Rhizoctonia solani	UV-vis, TEM, XRD	232
Dodonaea viscosaand Hyptis suoveolens leaf extracts	Candida albicans(ATCC 90028), C. glabrata(MTCC 3019), C. tropicalis(MTCC 184), clinical isolate (MTCC 11,802)	FTIR, SEM, XRD, DLS, ζ-potential	233
Cysteine and maltose	C. albicans(ATCC 10231), C. parapsilosis (ATCC 22019)	UV-vis, TEM, SEM, DLS	234
Lignin	A. niger	UV-vis, TEM, SEM, EDS, XRD	235
Cyanobacterium Nostoc strain HKAR2 cell extract	A. niger, Trichoderma harzianum	UV-vis, TEM, SAED, SEM, FTIR, XRD, ζ-potential	236
Bergenia ciliate plant extract	A. fumigatus (FCBP 66), F. solani(FCBP 0291), A. niger(FCBP 0198), A. flavus(FCBP 0064)	UV-vis, SEM, FTIR	237
Trifolium resupinatum seed extract	Neofusicoccum parvum, R. solani	UV-vis, TEM FTIR, XRD	238

Abbreviations: NPs, nanoparticles; UV-vis, ultraviolet-visible (spectroscopy); TEM, transmission electron microscopy; SEM, scanning electron microscopy; XRD, X-ray diffraction; FTIR, Fourier-transform infrared (spectroscopy); DLS, dynamic light scattering; EDX, energy-dispersive X-ray (spectroscopy); EDAX, ED X-ray analysis; SAED, selected-area electron diffraction.