Green synthesis of gold nanoparticles using plant products and plants extracts aiming for cancer therapy: helping the beauty to beat ‘cure’ the beast

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Table 1. The advantages and disadvantages of the use of plant extracts as a green approach in the gold nanoparticles synthesis.

Advantages	Disadvantages
Eco-friendly [11]	More insights on the mechanistic and dynamic aspects of the nanoparticles aspects still need to be explored [11]
Cost-effective [12]	Difficult to control the size and the shape of the nanoparticles [13]
Does not include toxic reagents and chemicals [13]	The feasibility of large-scale preparation of nanoparticles is still questioned [12]

Figure 1. A schematic diagram explaining the one-step synthesis method for the preparation of polypyrrole-coated gold nanoparticles (Part of the figure is drawn using Biorender.com).

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