Abstract
The emergence of nanoparticles (NPs) has attracted tremendous interest of the scientific community for decades due to their unique properties and potential applications in diverse areas, including drug delivery and therapy. These opportunities are based on the unique properties (e.g., magnetic, optical, mechanical, and electronic) that vary continuously or abruptly with changes in the size of the materials at the nanoscale. Advances in nanotechnology have significantly impacted the field of therapeutics delivery. Although the impressive progress made in the design of disease-targeted NPs allows new treatments with improved specificity, only a few NP-based medicines have reached the market. There is a need for a new discipline-nanotoxicology-that would evaluate the health threats posed by nanoparticles, and would enable safe development of the emerging nanotechnology industry related to biotherapy. Green Nanotechnology gives the opportunity in lowering the risk of using nanomaterials, limiting the risk of producing nanomaterials, and using nanomaterials to lower the risk of producing unwanted chemical intermediates and end-products.
Highlights
Green nanotechnology has drawn on the field of green chemistry, and the framework of the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry [3] features significantly in work to design new nanotechnologies for joint economic, social, and health/ environmental benefit [4]
Until recently the spectacular developments in nanotechnology have been with little regard to their potential effect on human health and the environment
There are no specific regulations on nanoparticles except existing regulations covering the same material in bulk form
Summary
The development of nanotechnology in its broadest and most altruistic sense seeks to improve the comprehension of nature through an increase in fundamental knowledge and to provide yet another tool in tackling basic global concerns of immense moral impact As examples, the latter include providing for a clean water supply; ensuring food security and decent human shelter; improving transportation, power, and energy systems; and reducing the weight of pollution and of greenhouse gases in industrial manufacturing processes in order to preserve a clean environment [3]. There is an unusual opportunity to use science, engineering and policy knowledge to design novel products that are benign as possible to human and environment health Recognition of this opportunity has led to the development of the “green nanoscience” concept [1,2]. J Nanomedine Biotherapeutic Discov 4: 125. doi:10.4172/2155-983X.1000125 using nanomaterials to lower the risk of producing unwanted chemical intermediates and end-products
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