Fungal production of cerium oxide nanoparticles

'Naonotechnology', one of the promising technologies in the future, is a rapidly developing interdisciplinary science that covers the design, production and characterization of structures called nanoparticles ranging in size from 1 to 100 nm. Metallic nanoparticles, which form an important class of nanoparticles, have many important applications in the field such as optics, catalysis, electronics, bioremediation. In this study, fungal biosynthesis of CeO2-X nanoparticles of cerium (Ce), which is a member of transition metal elements, with fungal Fusarium oxysporum was performed for the first time. Information such as shape, size, surface energy, structural and functional properties of the synthesized nanoparticles have been verified by XRD , SEM, FT-IR, XPS and UV-vis analyses.