Issue 11, 2022

Advanced metal and carbon nanostructures for medical, drug delivery and bio-imaging applications

Abstract

Nanoparticles (NPs) offer great promise for biomedical, environmental, and clinical applications due to their several unique properties as compared to their bulk counterparts. In this review article, we overview various types of metal NPs and magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) in monolithic form as well as embedded into polymer matrices for specific drug delivery and bio-imaging fields. The second part of this review covers important carbon nanostructures that have gained tremendous attention recently in such medical applications due to their ease of fabrication, excellent biocompatibility, and biodegradability at both cellular and molecular levels for phototherapy, radio-therapeutics, gene-delivery, and biotherapeutics. Furthermore, various applications and challenges involved in the use of NPs as biomaterials are also discussed following the future perspectives of the use of NPs in biomedicine. This review aims to contribute to the applications of different NPs in medicine and healthcare that may open up new avenues to encourage wider research opportunities across various disciplines.

Graphical abstract: Advanced metal and carbon nanostructures for medical, drug delivery and bio-imaging applications

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
19 nov 2021
Accepted
15 jan 2022
First published
31 jan 2022

Nanoscale, 2022,14, 3987-4017

Advanced metal and carbon nanostructures for medical, drug delivery and bio-imaging applications

N. Kumar, P. Chamoli, M. Misra, M. K. Manoj and A. Sharma, Nanoscale, 2022, 14, 3987 DOI: 10.1039/D1NR07643D

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