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230 Citations
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2 December 2019

In recent years, an increasing number of nanomaterials have been explored for their applications in biomedical diagnostics, making their applications in healthcare biosensing a rapidly evolving field. Nanomaterials introduce versatility to the sensin...

  • Review
  • Open Access
57 Citations
11,420 Views
24 Pages

Nanomaterials for Electrochemical Immunosensing

  • Mingfei Pan,
  • Ying Gu,
  • Yaguang Yun,
  • Min Li,
  • Xincui Jin and
  • Shuo Wang

5 May 2017

Electrochemical immunosensors resulting from a combination of the traditional immunoassay approach with modern biosensors and electrochemical analysis constitute a current research hotspot. They exhibit both the high selectivity characteristics of im...

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94 Citations
9,191 Views
38 Pages

Optically Active Nanomaterials and Its Biosensing Applications—A Review

  • Santosh Kumar,
  • Zhi Wang,
  • Wen Zhang,
  • Xuecheng Liu,
  • Muyang Li,
  • Guoru Li,
  • Bingyuan Zhang and
  • Ragini Singh

4 January 2023

This article discusses optically active nanomaterials and their optical biosensing applications. In addition to enhancing their sensitivity, these nanomaterials also increase their biocompatibility. For this reason, nanomaterials, particularly those...

  • Review
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18 Citations
4,684 Views
30 Pages

A Review of Cobalt-Containing Nanomaterials, Carbon Nanomaterials and Their Composites in Preparation Methods and Application

  • Hongfeng Chen,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Lin Yang,
  • Liang Dong,
  • Dechen Wang,
  • Xinkai Xu,
  • Dijia Wang,
  • Jingchun Huang,
  • Mengge Lv and
  • Haiwang Wang

14 June 2022

With the increasing demand for sustainable and green energy, electric energy storage technologies have received enough attention and extensive research. Among them, Li-ion batteries (LIBs) are widely used because of their excellent performance, but i...

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114 Citations
9,116 Views
21 Pages

9 January 2020

Biosensors are very important for detecting target molecules with high accuracy, selectivity, and signal-to-noise ratio. Biosensors developed using biomolecules such as enzymes or nucleic acids which were used as the probes for detecting the target m...

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78 Citations
16,084 Views
28 Pages

Nanomaterials for Biosensing Lipopolysaccharide

  • Palak Sondhi,
  • Md Helal Uddin Maruf and
  • Keith J. Stine

21 December 2019

Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) are endotoxins, hazardous and toxic inflammatory stimulators released from the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria, and are the major cause of septic shock giving rise to millions of fatal illnesses worldwide. There is...

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610 Citations
27,094 Views
39 Pages

Nanomaterials for the Removal of Heavy Metals from Wastewater

  • Jinyue Yang,
  • Baohong Hou,
  • Jingkang Wang,
  • Beiqian Tian,
  • Jingtao Bi,
  • Na Wang,
  • Xin Li and
  • Xin Huang

12 March 2019

Removal of contaminants in wastewater, such as heavy metals, has become a severe problem in the world. Numerous technologies have been developed to deal with this problem. As an emerging technology, nanotechnology has been gaining increasing interest...

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270 Views
26 Pages

Effects of Nanomaterials on Crops

  • Xiaofang Yang,
  • Huilian Xu,
  • Wenrui Li,
  • Xianchao Chang,
  • Xiaohan Jiang,
  • Xiaoyong Liu and
  • Mengmeng Kong

It is essential to review the outcome of nanomaterials on crop growth and development, as well as their underlying applications and risks in agriculture. The agricultural department need to seek a more efficient and sustainable production approach wi...

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  • Review
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110 Citations
13,897 Views
22 Pages

Nanomaterials: Synthesis and Applications in Theranostics

  • Gokul Paramasivam,
  • Vishnu Vardhan Palem,
  • Thanigaivel Sundaram,
  • Vickram Sundaram,
  • Somasundaram Chandra Kishore and
  • Stefano Bellucci

28 November 2021

Nanomaterials are endowed with unique features and essential properties suitable for employing in the field of nanomedicine. The nanomaterials can be classified as 0D, 1D, 2D, and 3D based on their dimensions. The nanomaterials can be malleable and d...

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340 Citations
28,850 Views
16 Pages

Nanomaterials in Cosmetics: Recent Updates

  • Georgios Fytianos,
  • Abbas Rahdar and
  • George Z. Kyzas

This review paper collects the recent updates regarding the use of nanomaterials in cosmetics. Special focus is given to the applications of nanomaterials in the cosmetic industry, their unique features, as well as the advantages of nanoscale ingredi...

  • Review
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86 Citations
10,529 Views
32 Pages

Nanomaterials-Based Colorimetric Immunoassays

  • Lin Liu,
  • Yuanqiang Hao,
  • Dehua Deng and
  • Ning Xia

27 February 2019

Colorimetric immunoassays for tumor marker detection have attracted considerable attention due to their simplicity and high efficiency. With the achievements of nanotechnology and nanoscience, nanomaterials-based colorimetric immunoassays have been d...

  • Review
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114 Citations
23,115 Views
22 Pages

Antimicrobial Nanomaterials: A Review

  • Gaye Ezgi Yılmaz,
  • Ilgım Göktürk,
  • Mamajan Ovezova,
  • Fatma Yılmaz,
  • Seçkin Kılıç and
  • Adil Denizli

19 July 2023

Microbial colonization on various surfaces is a serious problem. Biofilms from these microbes pose serious health and economic threats. In addition, the recent global pandemic has also attracted great interest in the latest techniques and technology...

  • Review
  • Open Access
80 Citations
10,651 Views
19 Pages

Nanomaterials-Based Electrochemical Immunosensors

  • Zhenguo Zhang,
  • Yulin Cong,
  • Yichun Huang and
  • Xin Du

14 June 2019

With the development of nanomaterials and sensor technology, nanomaterials-based electrochemical immunosensors have been widely employed in various fields. Nanomaterials for electrode modification are emerging one after another in order to improve th...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,014 Views
4 Pages

Metallic Nanomaterials with Biomedical Applications

  • Jiali Wang,
  • Guo Zhao,
  • Liya Feng and
  • Shaowen Chen

12 December 2022

Metallic nanomaterials have attracted extensive attention in various fields due to their photocatalytic, photosensitive, thermal conducting, electrical conducting and semiconducting properties. Among all these fields, metallic nanomaterials are of pa...

  • Review
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124 Citations
10,419 Views
23 Pages

Nanomaterials for the Photothermal Killing of Bacteria

  • Sibidou Yougbaré,
  • Chinmaya Mutalik,
  • Dyah Ika Krisnawati,
  • Heny Kristanto,
  • Achmad Jazidie,
  • Mohammad Nuh,
  • Tsai-Mu Cheng and
  • Tsung-Rong Kuo

An upsurge in the multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial pestilence is a global cause for concern in terms of human health. Lately, nanomaterials with photothermal effects have assisted in the efficient killing of MDR bacteria, attributable to their unc...

  • Review
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39 Citations
5,923 Views
27 Pages

Biosensors Based on Advanced Sulfur-Containing Nanomaterials

  • Chunmei Li,
  • Yihan Wang,
  • Hui Jiang and
  • Xuemei Wang

19 June 2020

In recent years, sulfur-containing nanomaterials and their derivatives/composites have attracted much attention because of their important role in the field of biosensor, biolabeling, drug delivery and diagnostic imaging technology, which inspires us...

  • Review
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152 Citations
13,104 Views
19 Pages

Plasma and Nanomaterials: Fabrication and Biomedical Applications

  • Nagendra Kumar Kaushik,
  • Neha Kaushik,
  • Nguyen Nhat Linh,
  • Bhagirath Ghimire,
  • Anchalee Pengkit,
  • Jirapong Sornsakdanuphap,
  • Su-Jae Lee and
  • Eun Ha Choi

14 January 2019

Application of plasma medicine has been actively explored during last several years. Treating every type of cancer remains a difficult task for medical personnel due to the wide variety of cancer cell selectivity. Research in advanced plasma physics...

  • Review
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54 Citations
4,426 Views
26 Pages

Nanomaterials with Excellent Adsorption Characteristics for Sample Pretreatment: A Review

  • Wen-Xin Liu,
  • Shuang Song,
  • Ming-Li Ye,
  • Yan Zhu,
  • Yong-Gang Zhao and
  • Yin Lu

27 May 2022

Sample pretreatment in analytical chemistry is critical, and the selection of materials for sample pretreatment is a key factor for high enrichment ability, good practicality, and satisfactory recoveries. In this review, the recent progress of the sa...

  • Review
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58 Citations
6,853 Views
20 Pages

Sustainable Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications

  • Yuhang Zhang,
  • Kingsley Poon,
  • Gweneth Sofia P. Masonsong,
  • Yogambha Ramaswamy and
  • Gurvinder Singh

Significant progress in nanotechnology has enormously contributed to the design and development of innovative products that have transformed societal challenges related to energy, information technology, the environment, and health. A large portion o...

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  • Review
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19 Citations
4,664 Views
16 Pages

Effect of Nanomaterials on Gut Microbiota

  • Ying Ma,
  • Jiahe Zhang,
  • Nairui Yu,
  • Jiaqi Shi,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Zhangjian Chen and
  • Guang Jia

17 April 2023

Nanomaterials are widely employed in everyday life, including food and engineering. Food additives on a nanoscale can enter the body via the digestive tract. The human gut microbiota is a dynamically balanced ecosystem composed of a multitude of micr...

  • Review
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25 Citations
1,261 Views
14 Pages

Radioactive Nanomaterials for Multimodality Imaging

  • Daiqin Chen,
  • Casey A. Dougherty,
  • Dongzhi Yang,
  • Hongwei Wu and
  • Hao Hong

Nuclear imaging techniques, primarily including positron emission tomography and single-photon emission computed tomography, can provide quantitative information for a biological event in vivo with ultrahigh sensitivity; however, the comparatively lo...

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340 Citations
33,869 Views
30 Pages

Green Synthesis of Nanomaterials

  • Matthew Huston,
  • Melissa DeBella,
  • Maria DiBella and
  • Anisha Gupta

21 August 2021

Nanotechnology is considered one of the paramount forefronts in science over the last decade. Its versatile implementations and fast-growing demand have paved the way for innovative measures for the synthesis of higher quality nanomaterials. In the e...

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13 Citations
3,134 Views
34 Pages

Recent Advances of Composite Nanomaterials for Antibiofilm Application

  • Ruilian Qi,
  • Yuanyuan Cui,
  • Jian Liu,
  • Xiaoyu Wang and
  • Huanxiang Yuan

8 October 2023

A biofilm is a microbial community formed by bacteria that adsorb on the surface of tissues or materials and is wrapped in extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) such as polysaccharides, proteins and nucleic acids. As a protective barrier, the EPS...

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82 Citations
8,458 Views
34 Pages

2 December 2020

Nanotechnology implies the scientific research, development, and manufacture, along with processing, of materials and structures on a nano scale. Presently, the contamination of metalloids and metals in the soil has gained substantial attention. The...

  • Review
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48 Citations
8,006 Views
16 Pages

Advances of Anti-Caries Nanomaterials

  • Hui Chen,
  • Lisha Gu,
  • Binyou Liao,
  • Xuedong Zhou,
  • Lei Cheng and
  • Biao Ren

30 October 2020

Caries is the most common and extensive oral chronic disease. Due to the lack of anti-caries properties, traditional caries filling materials can easily cause secondary caries and lead to treatment failure. Nanomaterials can interfere with the bacter...

  • Article
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19 Citations
5,509 Views
14 Pages

The DaNa2.0 Knowledge Base Nanomaterials—An Important Measure Accompanying Nanomaterials Development

  • Harald F. Krug,
  • Nils Bohmer,
  • Dana Kühnel,
  • Clarissa Marquardt,
  • Katja Nau and
  • Christoph Steinbach

29 March 2018

Nanotechnology is closely related to the tailored manufacturing of nanomaterials for a huge variety of applications. However, such applications with newly developed materials are also a reason for concern. The DaNa2.0 project provides information and...

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68 Citations
6,256 Views
20 Pages

Nanomaterials in Cementitious Composites: An Update

  • Zoi S. Metaxa,
  • Athanasia K. Tolkou,
  • Stefania Efstathiou,
  • Abbas Rahdar,
  • Evangelos P. Favvas,
  • Athanasios C. Mitropoulos and
  • George Z. Kyzas

This review is an update about the addition of nanomaterials in cementitious composites in order to improve their performance. The most common used nanomaterials for cementitious materials are carbon nanotubes, nanocellulose, nanographene, graphene o...

  • Review
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18 Citations
4,783 Views
28 Pages

Clinical Applications of Targeted Nanomaterials

  • Ankesh Kumar,
  • SK Shahvej,
  • Pankaj Yadav,
  • Unnati Modi,
  • Amit K. Yadav,
  • Raghu Solanki and
  • Dhiraj Bhatia

Targeted nanomaterials are at the forefront of advancements in nanomedicine due to their unique and versatile properties. These include nanoscale size, shape, surface chemistry, mechanical flexibility, fluorescence, optical behavior, magnetic and ele...

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  • Review
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17 Citations
6,927 Views
28 Pages

26 February 2023

Electrocatalysis has become an important topic in various areas of research, including chemical catalysis, environmental research, and chemical engineering. There have been a multitude of different catalysts used in the electrocatalytic reduction of...

  • Retraction
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3 Citations
3,221 Views

14 December 2018

The Nanomaterials Editorial Office has been made aware that the published paper [...]

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17 Citations
4,941 Views
15 Pages

Improving Isolation of Extracellular Vesicles by Utilizing Nanomaterials

  • Haiyang Zhang,
  • Qi Zhang,
  • Yuanyuan Deng,
  • Mengxi Chen and
  • Chenxi Yang

31 December 2021

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) as the new form of cellular communication have been demonstrated their potential use for disease diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. EVs are vesicles with a lipid bilayer and are present in various biofluids, such as bloo...

  • Review
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1 Citations
3,692 Views
31 Pages

Enzyme Immobilization on Nanomaterials and Their Applications

  • Rahul Vikram Singh,
  • Bakul Singh,
  • Anurag Kumar,
  • Krishika Sambyal,
  • Karthikeyan Kugalur Karuppanan and
  • Jung-Kul Lee

1 September 2025

Immobilizing enzymes onto nanomaterials is a promising approach for increasing the efficiency of industrial biotransformation processes. Nanomaterials have large surface areas and unique physicochemical characteristics, they increase enzyme stability...

  • Review
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59 Citations
7,046 Views
26 Pages

Advances in Nanomaterials-Based Electrochemical Biosensors for Foodborne Pathogen Detection

  • Ivan Bobrinetskiy,
  • Marko Radovic,
  • Francesco Rizzotto,
  • Priya Vizzini,
  • Stefan Jaric,
  • Zoran Pavlovic,
  • Vasa Radonic,
  • Maria Vesna Nikolic and
  • Jasmina Vidic

13 October 2021

Electrochemical biosensors utilizing nanomaterials have received widespread attention in pathogen detection and monitoring. Here, the potential of different nanomaterials and electrochemical technologies is reviewed for the development of novel diagn...

  • Review
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52 Citations
8,809 Views
19 Pages

Nanomaterials Application in Orthodontics

  • Wojciech Zakrzewski,
  • Maciej Dobrzynski,
  • Wojciech Dobrzynski,
  • Anna Zawadzka-Knefel,
  • Mateusz Janecki,
  • Karolina Kurek,
  • Adam Lubojanski,
  • Maria Szymonowicz,
  • Zbigniew Rybak and
  • Rafal J. Wiglusz

28 January 2021

Nanotechnology has gained importance in recent years due to its ability to enhance material properties, including antimicrobial characteristics. Nanotechnology is applicable in various aspects of orthodontics. This scientific work focuses on the conc...

  • Review
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141 Citations
11,597 Views
26 Pages

Nanomaterials and Their Impact on the Immune System

  • Alaa A. Aljabali,
  • Mohammad A. Obeid,
  • Rasha M. Bashatwah,
  • Ángel Serrano-Aroca,
  • Vijay Mishra,
  • Yachana Mishra,
  • Mohamed El-Tanani,
  • Altijana Hromić-Jahjefendić,
  • Deepak N. Kapoor and
  • Rohit Goyal
  • + 2 authors

19 January 2023

Nanomaterials have been the focus of intensive development and research in the medical and industrial sectors over the past several decades. Some studies have found that these compounds can have a detrimental impact on living organisms, including the...

  • Review
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45 Citations
8,296 Views
34 Pages

Nanomaterials Application in Endodontics

  • Wojciech Zakrzewski,
  • Maciej Dobrzyński,
  • Anna Zawadzka-Knefel,
  • Adam Lubojański,
  • Wojciech Dobrzyński,
  • Mateusz Janecki,
  • Karolina Kurek,
  • Maria Szymonowicz,
  • Rafał Jakub Wiglusz and
  • Zbigniew Rybak

14 September 2021

In recent years, nanomaterials have become increasingly present in medicine, especially in dentistry. Their characteristics are proving to be very useful in clinical cases. Due to the intense research in the field of biomaterials and nanotechnology,...

  • Review
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255 Citations
11,259 Views
21 Pages

Background: Nanomedicine is a field of science that uses nanoscale materials for the diagnosis and treatment of human disease. It has emerged as an important aspect of the therapeutics, but at the same time, also raises concerns regarding the safety...

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537 Views
29 Pages

Research Progress on Nanomaterials in SPR Sensors

  • Hongji Zhang,
  • Zhe Gao,
  • Yulin Zhang,
  • Runze Hou,
  • Haoran Zhang,
  • Ziqi Yan,
  • Jiazhen Tian,
  • Pengcheng Tao and
  • Xinlei Zhou

8 December 2025

While surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors serve as vital tools for biomolecular detection; conventional versions suffer from inherent limitations, including confined localized electromagnetic fields and inadequate sensitivity for detecting low-ab...

  • Review
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25 Citations
3,337 Views
16 Pages

Functionalized Silver and Gold Nanomaterials with Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications

  • Navid Rabiee,
  • Sepideh Ahmadi,
  • Siavash Iravani and
  • Rajender S. Varma

The functionalization of nanomaterials with suitable capping ligands or bioactive agents is an interesting strategy in designing nanosystems with suitable applicability and biocompatibility; the physicochemical and biological properties of these nano...

  • Article
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34 Citations
5,292 Views
30 Pages

Active Carbon-Based Nanomaterials in Food Packaging

  • Katarzyna Mitura,
  • Joanna Kornacka,
  • Elżbieta Kopczyńska,
  • Jacek Kalisz,
  • Ewa Czerwińska,
  • Maciej Affeltowicz,
  • Witold Kaczorowski,
  • Beata Kolesińska,
  • Justyna Frączyk and
  • Totka Bakalova
  • + 2 authors

29 January 2021

Carbon-based nanomaterials (CBN) are currently used in many biomedical applications. The research includes optimization of single grain size and conglomerates of pure detonated nanodiamond (DND), modified nanodiamond particles and graphene oxide (GO)...

  • Review
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67 Citations
9,208 Views
14 Pages

Carbon Nanomaterials: Efficacy and Safety for Nanomedicine

  • Takuya Yamashita,
  • Kohei Yamashita,
  • Hiromi Nabeshi,
  • Tomoaki Yoshikawa,
  • Yasuo Yoshioka,
  • Shin-ichi Tsunoda and
  • Yasuo Tsutsumi

21 February 2012

Carbon nanomaterials, including fullerenes, carbon nanohorns, and carbon nanotubes, are increasingly being used in various fields owing to these materials’ unique, size-dependent functions and physicochemical properties. Recently, because of their hi...

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