RECENT TRENDS IN ADVANCED NANOTECHNOLOGY AND ITS APPLICATION

We feel great contentment in bringing out this Edited Book on “Recent Trends in
Nanotechnology and its Application”. Nanotechnology opens up an almost unlimited field
of research activity. Especially in medicine, nanotechnology offers exciting opportunities.
Novel diagnostic procedures and therapies promise wide-ranging development potential. For
example, novel drugs can be developed. Supported by the progressive miniaturization in the
electronics industry, interdisciplinary research teams are researching so-called nanobots.
Prototypes already available today should continue to shrink below the size of blood cells
and be able to move in the human organism. These nanobots could then transport drugs and
dose them specifically to the disease centers
It is claimed that environmental problems such as pollution and climate change could also be
solved. However, there are also negative properties that nanotechnology entails. For example,
the development of usable nanoparticles requires enormous energy and water consumption as
well as the use of toxic solvents and chemicals. In addition, the use of nano packaging
promotes longer shelf life of food, which in turn means that the food continues to be
transported over long distances. Everyone knows that global transport is a major
environmental burden. For humans, dangers arise when such nano-pesticides are ingested via
food, as research cannot yet foresee how the human body absorbs and degrades these
substances.
This book provides a collection of chapters, latest technologies, advanced methods and
untapped research findings in the areas involved in diverse fields of nanotechnology such as,
Nano Materials, Nano Chemistry, Nano Physics, Crystal growth, Novel Materials for Green
Chemistry and Discrete Mathematics and Mathematical Physics. Each chapter is written by
renowned researchers in their respective fields of nanotechnology and includes future
advancement in nanotechnology. Also, these are designed to help the readers capture some of
the breadths and exciting views about research in nanotechnology, which are considered
crucial and can, pave the way to scale up the next generation of scientific and technological
advancements.