Abstract
Nanomaterials can be designed, synthetized, and also functionalized to present key properties to be applied in biological and other kinds of systems. This chapter highlights some of the carbon-based and non-carbon-based nanomaterials, like their use to deliver different substances, imaging/diagnosis, tissue engineering, and energy storage. However, when it comes to their use in live systems it is necessary to check how safe it is to apply these materials, verifying if the desired effect will be achieved and if the action can be site-specific enough to guarantee biosafety. Therefore the chemical modification of nanomaterials is an important tool for its optimized and strategic use. Thus biocompatibility and functionalization of nanomaterials are also discussed in this chapter, which ends by presenting some future perspectives related to these relevant topics.
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