TY - JOUR T1 - Bioinspired eco-friendly synthesis of ZrO2 nanoparticles JF - Journal of Materials and Environmental Science Y1 - 2016 A1 - Uddin, I. A1 - Ahmad, A. AB - Here we report the extracellular biosynthesis of zirconia (ZrO2) nanoparticles under ambient conditions by challenging the fungus Humicola sp. with potassium hexafluorozirconate (K2ZrF6) as a precursor. Transmission electron micrograph (TEM) showed that nanoparticles are quasi-spherical in shape with an average particle size of 13 nm. The structural investigation was done using selected area electron diffraction (SAED) and powder XRD which show that the nanoparticles are perfectly crystalline with an orthorhombic structure. XPS and FTIR analysis explained the presence of proteins on the nanoparticles surfaces. VL - 7 UR - https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84988430948&origin=inward&txGid=25fe3c642542aef24895f8428cb2918b IS - 9 U3 - Foreign U4 - 00.0 ER -