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Recent Revolutions in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology with Its Application’s
Author(s) -
AnamIqbal,
kanwalIqbal,
Wenwu Qin,
Muhammad Mateen
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2640-5571
DOI - 10.33140/ann.03.03.04
Subject(s) - nanotechnology , societal impact of nanotechnology , applications of nanotechnology , engineering , engineering ethics , materials science
During the past decade, new directions of modern research, broadly defined as nanoscale science and technology have emerged. This is not a separate scientific field; instead it is a complex platform for the existing disciplines of biology, physics, medicine, chemistry, neurology, engineering, information technology, and a newmultidisciplinary scientific research area. In recent years, the nanoscience and nanotechnology have attract a great deal of attention in both synthesis methodologies and wide applications of medicine, energy, environmental, electronics etc. Despite of significant progress in nanotechnology and rise of many commercialized products involving nanomaterials, nanoscience, and technology are still facing many new challenges, especially in the areas of great concern to the public i.e. energy and health. Advances in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology AnamIqbal1*, kanwalIqbal2* Wenwu Qin3 Muhammad Mateen4 *Corresponding author Anam Iqbal, Department of Chemistry, University of Baluchistan Quetta 87300, Pakistan, E-mail: anamiqbal25@yahoo.com, KanwalIqbal, Department of Chemistry, Sardar Bahadur Khan Women’s University Quetta 87300, Pakistan, E-mail: kanwaliqbal98@gmail.com Submitted: 13 Sep 2019; Accepted: 18 Sep 2019; Published: 25 Sep 2019 Introduction Nanotechnology research is leading science into exciting and unknown frontiers in the new millennium. By definition, nanoscience is the study of materials and associated physical, biophysical, and biochemical phenomena on the scale of ~1 to 100 nm (nanometers). The National Institutes of Health (2000) described “nanotechnology” as involving research and technology development at the atomic, molecular, or macromolecular levels in the dimension range of approximately 1-100 nm to provide fundamental understanding of phenomena and materials at the nanoscale and to create and use structures, devices, and systems that have novel properties and functions because of their small and/or intermediate size. The importance of particles in this range is in the sense that they can have different and enhanced properties compared with the same material at a larger size [1]. Increased surface area and quantum effects are two principal factors separating nanomaterials from other materials. These two factors can enhance properties such as strength, reactivity, electrical characteristics invivo and in vitro behavior [2]. Hence, nanotechnology and nanoscience are widely seen as having a great potential to bring benefits to many areas of research and applications [3]. The primary appeal of nanoscience (and attendant developments in nanotechnology) is the potential to create and manipulate matter at the nanoscale. This leads to the possibility of preparing novel materials (nanomaterials) that have specific, manipulable physical properties and functions. Such physical properties and functionsinclude enhanced electrical and electronic conductivities, lower thermal conductivities, and higher temperature deformation characteristics compared to their conventional bulk material counterparts [4]. Benefits Involved in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology There are numerous benefits from nanoscience and nanotechnology including the application of nanotechnology in the field of health care (treatment of a large variety of medical conditions e.g. new nano materials are engineered and designed that are suitable for medical implants and also silver and gold nano particles with anti-microbial properties) has come under great attention in recent times. So, the developments in nanoscience and nanotechnology have allowed us to place man-made nanoscale things inside the living cells [5]. Dealing with economic benefits there are numerous treatments today that take a lot of time and are also very expensive (about 110 billion dollars in sales by an industry manufacturing fine chemicals). Using nanoscience and nanotechnology, quicker and much cheaper treatments can be developed. Besides, there is another aspect to using nanotechnology in medicine, energy system. By using nanoscience &nanotechnology, nano particles can be inhaled and swallowed, and absorbed through the skin. Moreover, there are no adequate regulations regarding labeling or handling, environmental and health hazards; risks associated with Adv Nanoscie Nanotec, 2019 1Department of Chemistry, University of Baluchistan Quetta 87300,

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