Journal of Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials

Commentary Open Access

Nanotechnology for Water Purification – Current Trends and Challenges

M. P. Ajith, Paulraj Rajamani

Environmental pollution is a significant concern in both developing and developed countries. The pollution load in the environment accumulates as a result of anthropogenic activity. Both organic and inorganic contaminants are hazardous to living things, and their incidence and persistence have risen dramatically in current years.

Review Article Open Access

Functionalized Folic Acid with Chitosan and PAMAM Dendrimers for Delivery of DNA and RNA

P. Chanphai, T.J. Thomas, H. A. Tajmir-Riahi

The conjugation of polymers with multiple targeting ligands has become a popular approach for targeted gene and drug delivery. Functionalized polymer–drug conjugates are increasingly used to obtain biodegradable, targeted tools to further enhance localized gene and drug delivery systems. Folic acid (FA)-conjugated biodegradable polymers were tested as effective gene and drug delivery tools. Folate receptors are cellular markers highly expressed in various cancer cells and on

Research Article Open Access

Rapid Inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 by Coupling Tungsten Trioxide (WO3) Photocatalyst with Copper Nanoclusters

Silvia Ghezzi, Isabel Pagani, Guido Poli, Sudipto Pal, Antonio Licciulli, Stefano Perboni, Elisa Vicenzi

At the end of 2019, a novel severe respiratory disease (coronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19) spread to Wuhan, China, it became pandemic in few months, with more than 41 million people infected worldwide as of October 2020. COVID-19 is caused by a novel virus called severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) CoV-2 to distinguish it from SARS-CoV that emerged in Guangdong province in China in 2003 and caused the severe clinical condition known as SARS. Like SARS-CoV, SARS- CoV-2 causes a severe inter

Review Article Open Access

Developing Neo-bioplastics for the Realization of Carbon Sustainable Society

Akihito Nakanishi, Kohei Iritani, Yuri Sakihama

Plastic is a composite material made from organic polymers and can be freely molded into a film, fiber, or plate by heat or pressure processing. In 1839, Goodyear proposed the vulcanization of natural rubbers, while E. Simon discovered polystyrene

Review Article Open Access

Multidirectional Benefits of Nanotechnology in the Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of Tuberculosis

Monika Gupta, Shivangi, Laxman S. Meena

Despite the curious advancement in medical science and therapeutics, tuberculosis (TB) persist the primary factor of mortality than any other infectious disease and socioeconomic disaster for millions of people around the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), World’s One-third of the population is infected with this disease and of these, 8 to 10 million people develop active disease and 2 million people die each year and the rest of the infected people remain asymptomatic.

Research Article Open Access

Structural Characterization of Commercial Graphite and Graphene Materials

It-Meng Low, Hani Manssor Albetran, Michael Degiorgio

The most important elemental-carbon-based materials include zero-, one-, two-, and three-dimensionalstructured fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, graphene, and graphite, respectively. These non-metallic carbon materials have properties that are similar to semiconducting metals.

Review Article Open Access

Exploiting Nanotechnology to Target Viruses

Sérgio Antunes Filho, Otávio Augusto Leitão dos Santos, Mayara Santana dos Santos, Bianca Pizzorno Backx

Infectious diseases caused by microorganisms of the most varied natures and by viral entities cause millions of deaths every year. Around the world, viral infections have impacted civilizations’ circumstances since the earliest times, including the current panorama of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic known as coronavirus disease in 2019 (COVID-19). In this sense, in the last century,

Mini Review Open Access

Development of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles as Semiconductors

Ahmed M. Abu-Dief

The variety of methods employed during the fabrication of MONPs can alter the characteristics and control the properties of the obtained nano-oxides. The reaction mechanisms and, therefore, the functionality of nanostructured MOx depend on their composition