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Engineered nanoparticles (ENPs): Unexplored potential and limitations

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Title Engineered nanoparticles (ENPs): Unexplored potential and limitations
 
Creator Kathpalia, Ayush Thakur and Renu
 
Subject Engineered nanoparticles (ENPs)
Nanoelectronics
Nanoenergetic materials
Nanopollution
 
Description 1163-1170
The rapid growing industry of global economic importance is exploring the novel material synthesized at the nanoscale.
Engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) have been manufactured with specific shape, size, surface properties and unique
functionalities such as catalytic behaviour, increased strength, improved thermal and electrical conductivity. These
advancements have opened the door to new applications in biomedicine, nanoenergetic materials and functional
nanocomposites including cancer therapy, drug delivery, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, biomolecule detection,
and antimicrobial activities. In cancer therapies, nanoparticulate delivery systems allow ENPs greater penetration of
therapeutic and diagnostic substances within the body while posing fewer risks than conventional cancer therapies.
Evidences suggested that ENPs offer some substantial danger to the environment by its toxicological effects when they are
exposed to the environment, which leads to the chronic issues of nanopollution. The aquatic environment is at the greatest
risk from ENPs, as it serves as a sink for nearly all environmental contaminants. Despite these challenges, ENPs holds
promise to in different field as well as minimize environmental pollution, by employing the innovative environmental
remediation methods. There are gaps in understanding the fate of ENPs in the environment hence more stringent and critical
research is the need of the hour. It also call for the advancement of tools and techniques that can accurately quantify and
analyze the uptake of ENPs into biological systems. This review includes the different types of ENPs their sources and
physiochemical characteristics and the ultimate fate of these ENPs in the environment.
 
Date 2022-11-30T11:37:39Z
2022-11-30T11:37:39Z
2022-11
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-0959 (Online); 0301-1208 (Print)
http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/60977
https://doi.org/10.56042/ijbb.v59i12.67304
 
Language en
 
Publisher NIScPR-CSIR,India
 
Source IJBB Vol.59(12) [December 2022]