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Metal‐based NMs are sensitive to environmental factors such as heat, sunlight, moisture, and air. In order to overcome the demerits of metal NMs, metal oxide‐based NMs were synthesized. One of the most common examples of metal oxide NPs are iron oxide NPs, which are synthesized from the oxidation of iron particles at room temperature. The metal oxide NPs are preferred over metal NPs due to their increased reactivity and efficiency (Tai et al., 2007). Routinely employed metal oxides include: magnetite (Sun & Zeng, 2002), iron oxide, aluminum oxide (Mukherjee et al., 2011), silicon dioxide, titanium dioxide, zinc oxide (Sharma, Jandaik, Kumar, Chitkara, & Sandhu, 2016), cerium oxide, and copper oxide (Ren et al., 2009).