Tabriz University of Medical Sciences Advanced Pharmaceutical Bulletin 2228-5881 10 4 2020 08 09 Eco-Friendly Greener Synthesis of Nanoparticles 566 576 10.34172/apb.2020.067 EN Brahamdutt Bhardwaj https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2461-4405 Pritam Singh Arun Kumar Sandeep Kumar Vikas Budhwar https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4331-0116 REVIEW 10.34172/apb.2020.067 2019 06 11 2020 03 31 The exploitation of naturally obtained resources like biopolymers, plant-based extracts, microorganisms etc., offers numerous advantages of environment-friendliness and biocompatibility for various medicinal and pharmaceutical applications, whereas hazardous chemicals are not utilized for production protocol. Plant extracts based synthetic procedures have drawn consideration over conventional methods like physical and chemical procedures to synthesize nanomaterials. Greener synthesis of nanomaterials has become an area of interest because of numerous advantages such as non-hazardous, economical, and feasible methods with variety of applications in biomedicine, nanotechnology and nano-optoelectronics, etc.