“…In the recent years, nanotechnology based on the production of materials at nanoscale level has attracted the most attention due to the development of new type materials with unique physical and chemical properties that are successfully applied in many fields of the industries (Beni et al, 2020;Karaman et al, 2021). Among them, silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) have attracted great interest for numerous applications in medicine, catalysis, optical devices, biosensors, and water treatment due to their exciting properties, such as high catalytic and antimicrobial activities, chemical inertness, good photo-electrochemical activity, biocompatibility, and simple synthesis (Doan et al, 2021a, b;Karimi-Maleh et al, 2020aLe et al, 2021a;Pandian et al, 2021a). One of the most prominent applications of AgNPs is being used as an effective catalyst for the reduction of nitroaromatic compounds (Zhang et al, 2019).…”