“…Metallic nanoparticles have found diversified applications in the area of electronics, food, and, most profoundly, several biomedical-related fields, especially for their antimicrobial potential and also for their use as a diagnostic tool (Klebowski et al, 2018;Kumar et al, 2018;Azharuddin et al, 2019;Moutsiopoulou et al, 2019). The nano-sized metal-based particles have also been considered as promising tools for targeted drug delivery (Patra et al, 2018), imaging (Chen et al, 2018), sensors (Colino et al, 2018), synthetic inhibitors (Ma et al, 2018), etc. Nanomaterials have strikingly unique physicochemical properties (Ahmed et al, 2017), such as large surface area to mass ratio, ultra-small size, and high reactivity, which impart unusual mechanical (Guo et al, 2013), optical (Jackson and Halas, 2001), electrical, and chemical properties to as-formed particles.…”