Introduction to bionanomaterials: an overview
Kshitij RB Singh, Vanya Nayak, Ravindra Pratap Singh
Abstract
Bionanomaterials are promising materials produced from various biological elements, namely plants, bacteria, fungi, peptides, nucleic acids, etc. Bionanomaterials’ utility in the biomedical field has gained them much attention as they are biologically synthesized and biocompatible. Owing to their miniature size, bionanomaterials exhibit extraordinary properties which help them gain potentialities in different domains like aerospace engineering, material science, pharmacology, biosensors, etc. Moreover, to study the properties of the synthesized bionanomaterials, various characterization techniques have been utilized. Hence, this chapter briefly describes the fundamentals of bionanomaterials along with their biomedical applications.