Table 1.

Nanoparticles produced by Bacteria.

NPs	Species	Active Molecules	Morphology/Size (nm)	References
Ag	Bacillus cereus	Tyrosine and tryptophan	Spherical/4–5	[35]
	Bacillus licheniformis	NADPH-dependent Nitrate Reductase	Irregular/50	[66]
	Bacillus sp. KMS2-2	Phospholipids and proteins	Spherical/18–153	[117]
	Corynebacterium sp. SH09	Aldose and ketose	ND/10–15	[118]
	Corynebacterium glutamicum	Organic molecules of cell wall	Irregular/5–50	[119]
	Escherichia coli	Protein amino acids on cell wall	Irregular/50	[4]
	Morganella sp.	Protein amino acids on cell wall	Spherical/20 ± 5	[120]
Au	Bacillus subtilis 168	Aldose and ketose	Octahedral/5–25	[118]
	Escherichia coli	Protein amino acids on cell wall	Triangles, hexagons/20–30	[4]
	Pseudomonas aeruginosa	Excreted cell wall reduction enzymes	Irregular/15–30	[121]
	Lactobacillus Kimchicus	Sugars and NADPH-dependent reductase	Spherical/5–15	[116]
	Ureibacillus thermosphaericus	ND	Irregular/50–70	[122]
CdS	Escherichia coli	Glutathione	Spherical, elliptical/2–5	[6]
	Gluconoacetobacter xylinus	Bacterial-cellulose nanofibers	Spherical/30	[123]
	Lactobacillcus	ND	Spherical/4.9	[124]
	Rhodopseudomonas palustris	cysteine desulfhydrase	Cubic/8	[7]
	Rhodobacter sphaeroides	cysteine desulfhydrase	Hexagonal/8	[125]
Fe3O4	Aquaspirillum magnetotacticum	ND	Octahedral prism/40–50	[126]
	Magnetospirillum magnetotacticum	Amino and carboxylate acids	Cubo-octohedrons/47.1	[127]
	Magnetospirillum magnetotacticum (MS-1)	ND	Cuboctahedral/~50	[128]
	Shewanella oneidensis	Proteins, reductases, quinones and electron transferase	Rectangular, rhombic, hexagonal/40–50	[129]
Hg	Enterobacter sp.	ND	Spherical/2–5	[122]
MnO	Bacillus sp.	cardiolipins	Orthorhombic/4.62	[130]
PbS	Rhodobacter sphaeroides	cysteine desulfhydrase	Spherical/10.5 ± 0.15	[7]
Ti	Lactobacillus sp.	ND	Spherical/40–60	[124]
UO2	Shewanella oneidensis	Proteins, reductases, quinones, electron transferase	(UO2-EPS)/1–5	[129]
ZnS	Desulfobacteraceae	Cysteine desulfhydrase	Bio-film/2–5	[131]