Table 1.

Examples of recent studies on nanoparticle synthesis using fungi.

Nanoparticle	Fungus	Application	Intra/Extra	Reference
Platinum	Fusarium oxysporum	Nano medicine	Extra	(Chatterjee et al., 2020)
Iron oxide	Aspergillus niger BSC-1	Wastewater treatment	Extra	(Mohmed et al., 2017)
Silver	Aspergillus terreus	Antibacterial, anticancer	Extra	(Hulikere and Joshi, 2019)
Silver Silver	Cladosporium cladosporioides Ganoderma lucidium G. applanatum	Antioxidant, antimicrobial Antimicrobial	Extra Both	(Zhang et al., 2019) (Aygün et al., 2020)
Copper	Aspergillus niger	Antidiabetic and Antibacterial	Extra	(Zhang et al., 2019)
Gold	Cladosporium oxysporum	Catalysis	Extra	(Srivastava et al., 2019)
Selenium	Mariannaea sp. HJ	Medicinal and electronics	Both	(Vijayanandan, and Balakrishnan, 2018)
Cobalt oxide	Aspergillus nidulans	Energy storage	Extra	(Joshi et al., 2017)
Gold Silver, Gold, Selenium	Cladosporium cladosporioides Mushrooms	Antioxidant, antimicrobial Biomedicals	Extra Both	(Bhargava et al., 2016) (Adebayo et al., 2021)