Review on Nanoparticles and Nanostructured Materials: Bioimaging, Biosensing, Drug Delivery, Tissue Engineering, Antimicrobial, and Agro-Food Applications

• Published in: Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 12; no. 3; p. 457
• Main Authors: Harish, Vancha, Tewari, Devesh, Gaur, Manish, Yadav, Awadh Bihari, Swaroop, Shiv, Bechelany, Mikhael, Barhoum, Ahmed
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 28.01.2022; MDPI
• Subjects: Additives; Antiinfectives and antibacterials; Aspect ratio; Bacterial infections; Bioengineering; Biomaterials; Biomedical materials; Biosensors; Cancer therapies; Carbon; Chemical Sciences; Drug delivery; Drug delivery systems; Graphene; Health care; Life Sciences; Material chemistry; Medical imaging; Morphology; Nanofibers; Nanomaterials; Nanoparticles; Nanorods; Nanostructure; Nanostructured materials; nanostructures; Nanotechnology; Nanotubes; Optimization; Polymers; Porosity; Porous materials; Quantum dots; Raw materials; Review; Reviews; skincare; Tissue engineering; tissue-engineered scaffolds; wound dressings; tissue-engineered scaffolds; drug delivery systems; skincare; wound dressings; risks and toxicities; nanomaterials; market and regulations; nanostructures
• ISSN: 2079-4991; 2079-4991
• DOI: 10.3390/nano12030457

In the last few decades, the vast potential of nanomaterials for biomedical and healthcare applications has been extensively investigated. Several case studies demonstrated that nanomaterials can offer solutions to the current challenges of raw materials in the biomedical and healthcare fields. This review describes the different nanoparticles and nanostructured material synthesis approaches and presents some emerging biomedical, healthcare, and agro-food applications. This review focuses on various nanomaterial types (e.g., spherical, nanorods, nanotubes, nanosheets, nanofibers, core-shell, and mesoporous) that can be synthesized from different raw materials and their emerging applications in bioimaging, biosensing, drug delivery, tissue engineering, antimicrobial, and agro-foods. Depending on their morphology (e.g., size, aspect ratio, geometry, porosity), nanomaterials can be used as formulation modifiers, moisturizers, nanofillers, additives, membranes, and films. As toxicological assessment depends on sizes and morphologies, stringent regulation is needed from the testing of efficient nanomaterials dosages. The challenges and perspectives for an industrial breakthrough of nanomaterials are related to the optimization of production and processing conditions.