Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dhiman, Mamta
• Sharma, Lakshika
• Singh, Abhijeet
• Sharma, Madan Mohan
• Ranjan, Shivendu
• Vishnu Kirthi, A.
• Mohana Srinivasan, V.
• Karthik, L.

Titel

Biosynthesized Nanomaterials: Hope for the Resolution of Societal Problems

Ist Teil von

• Biological Synthesis of Nanoparticles and Their Applications, 2020, p.233-256

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Nanomaterial’s synthesis has ensued utmost curiosity in research field due to their unique properties making them more efficiently applicable in different fields such as pharma and therapeutics, cosmetics, agriculture, and food industries. Biological synthesis of nanomaterials (NMs) is relatively cheap, rapid, ecofriendly, easy to scale up, and considerably less hazardous for mankind. Biological synthesis is efficient as compared to using traditional methods and provides comparatively more steadiness and monodispersity to the NMs. In this chapter, different sources are discussed that have been utilized for the efficient synthesis of nanomaterials. NMs synthesis can be done using bacteria, fungi, plants, yeast, algae, actinomycetes, etc. These sources provide efficient stabilizing and capping potential which reduces further addition of chemicals to avoid aggregation or other changes in NMs structure. Depending upon the reduction reactions between metal solution and biological metabolites, NMs may appear diversely. Based on different morphological appearances, an overview of different classes of NMs is discussed in this chapter. Biogenic NMs have successfully been reported for diverse applications in different domain but these findings are limited only to publications and patents. A major portion of the chapter is dedicated to the possible applications of biogenic NMs along with the highlighted challenges and future possibilities for the societal benefits. Biosynthesized nanoparticles are used in shampoos and toothpastes as preservative agents and in peel-off facial masks nanomaterials (NMs) own antibacterial properties. In addition, macromolecules isolated from biological sources such as glycogen and phytoglycogen due to their monodisperse and particulate properties are claimed to be used as photo stabilizers in sunscreen formulations. Beside chemical and physical methods of NMs synthesis, the biological sources such as fungi, bacteria, actinomycetes, algae, yeast, and higher plants play a key role to act as a reducing and capping agent to synthesize a variety of NMs. Enormous applications of NMs increase their value and need their production in a larger scale. NMs have high impact on the biomedical sciences and they have been efficiently proved in targeted drug delivery, biocidal activities, anticancer properties and antioxidant characteristics. Beneficial effects of biological NMs motivate the implementation of these robust nano-factories to resolve societal problems.