Overview
- The latest research, new techniques and new materials of nanotechnology for plants to boost their functions
- Detailed discussion of synthesis of nanoparticles
- Coverage of biomedical applications such as specific drug delivery, use for tumor detection, angiogenesis, genetic disease and genetic disorder diagnosis, photoimaging, and photothermal therapy
- Fully referenced for further reading
Part of the book series: Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences (NALIS)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
But the biogenic syntheses of monodispersed nanoparticles with specific sizes and shapes have been a challenge in biomaterial science. Nanoparticles are of great interest due to their extremely small size and large surface-to-volume ratio, which lead to both chemical and physical differences in their properties (e.g., mechanical properties, biological and sterical properties, catalytic activity, thermal and electrical conductivity, optical absorption and melting point) compared to bulk of the same chemical composition. Recently, however, synthesizing metal nanoparticles using green technology via microorganisms, plants, viruses, and so on, has been extensively studied and has become recognized as a green and efficient way for further exploiting biological systems as convenient nanofactories. Thus the biological synthesis of nanoparticles is increasingly regarded as a rapid, ecofriendly, and easily scaled-up technology.
Today researchers are developing new techniques and materials using nanotechnology that may be suitable for plants to boost their native functions. Recently, biological nanoparticles were found to be more pharmacologically active than physico-chemically synthesized nanoparticles. Various applications of biosynthesized nanoparticles have been discovered, especially in the field of biomedical research, such as applications to specific delivery of drugs, use for tumor detection, angiogenesis, genetic disease and genetic disorder diagnosis, photoimaging, and photothermal therapy. Further, iron oxide nanoparticles have been applied to cancer therapy,hyperthermia, drug delivery, tissue repair, cell labeling, targeting and immunoassays, detoxification of biological fluids, magnetic resonance imaging, and magnetically responsive drug delivery therapy.
Nanoparticle synthesis for plant byproducts for biomedical applications has vast potential. This book offers researchers in plant science and biomedicine the latest research and opportunity to develop new tools for the synthesis of environmentally friendly and cost-effective nanoparticles for applications in biomedicine as well as other various fields.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Research Institute of Biotechnology and Medical Converged Science
Dongguk University
Republic of Korea
Leonardo Fernandes Fraceto
Professor
São Paulo State University (UNESP)
Institute of Science and Technology of Sorocaba
Brazil
Gitishree Das
Assistant Professor
Research Institute of Biotechnology and Medical Converged Science
Dongguk University
Republic of Korea
Estefânia Vangelie Ramos Campos
São Paulo State University (UNESP)
Institute of Science and Technology of Sorocaba
Brazil
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Green Nanoparticles
Book Subtitle: Synthesis and Biomedical Applications
Editors: Jayanta Kumar Patra, Leonardo F. Fraceto, Gitishree Das, Estefânia Vangelie Ramos Campos
Series Title: Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39246-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39245-1Published: 07 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39248-2Published: 07 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39246-8Published: 06 April 2020
Series ISSN: 2523-8027
Series E-ISSN: 2523-8035
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 394
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 64 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, Plant Biochemistry, Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Plant Anatomy/Development