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Fungus-Mediated Bioleaching of Metallic Nanoparticles from Agro-industrial By-Products

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Nanotechnology is a multidisciplinary area that involves the synthesis of advanced material at the nanoscale level. Nowadays applications of the nanomaterial are widely accepted and being observed in all the areas ranging from health to environment sectors. Hence there is a surge of nanotechnology for production of nanomaterial at the large scale without compromising the eco-hazardous concerns of the chemical synthesis routes of nanoparticles. The chapter describes the advances and applications of the fungi in bioleaching of waste materials ranging from fly ash to agro-industrial by-products for the production of metallic nanomaterial with reference to silica nanoparticle.

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Verma, M.L. (2017). Fungus-Mediated Bioleaching of Metallic Nanoparticles from Agro-industrial By-Products. In: Prasad, R. (eds) Fungal Nanotechnology. Fungal Biology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68424-6_5

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