A REVIEW ON CURRENT CARBON NANOMATERIALS AND OTHER NANOPARTICLES TECHNOLOGY AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN BIOMEDICINE
Amit Sharma*, Durgadas Anghore, Rajendra Awasthi, Sourabh Kosey, Shammy Jindal, Nitin Gupta2, Dev Raj, Radhika Sood
ABSTRACT
Nanotechnology ("nanotech") is the manipulation of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale. A more generalized description of nanotechnology was subsequently established by the National Nanotechnology Initiative, which defines nanotechnology as the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100. It is the design, characterization, synthesis and application of materials, structures, devices and systems by controlling shape and size at nanometer scale.[2,3] It is the ability to work at the atomic, molecular and supramolecular levels to create and employ materials, structures, devices and systems with basically new properties. Scientifically, nanotechnology is employed to describe materials, devices and
systems with structures and components exhibiting new and significantly improved physical, chemical and biological properties as well as the phenomena and processes enabled by the ability to control properties at nanoscale. Nanotechnology is gaining importance in biology due to its small size and targeted effects. Nanoscale devices are 100-10000 times smaller than human cell. Because of their small size and larger surface area relative to their volume, nanoscale devices can readily interact with biomolecules (such as receptors, enzymes) on both, surface of the cell and inside the cell. By gaining access to various areas of the body, nanoparticles have the potential to detect the disease at micro level and deliver treatment. Work is currently being conducted to find ways to safely move these new research tools in clinical practice.
Keywords: Nanotechnology, Current Carbon Nanomaterials, Nanoparticles.
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