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

Abstract

Since there is a noticed paucity in manuscripts exploiting the green synthesis methods in the preparation of gold nanoparticles, hence this editorial is introduced in order to encourage the researchers to more focussing on this topic. Brief demonstration of the different conducted green methods, examples of used plants and plants extracts and novel advanced methods such as the one-step synthesis of gold-coated polypyrrole photothermal nanoparticles and their use in cancer therapy are introduced.

Keywords

• Green
• nanoparticles
• gold
• plant
• cancer