Nano Particles: Types and Their Biomedical Applications

Year 2025, Volume: 8 Issue: 2, 114 - 137, 23.12.2025

Ashan Ahmed , Asyar Khoshnaw , Safar Saeed Mohammed , Ahmad Hassan

https://doi.org/10.54565/jphcfum.1623212

Abstract

The small size of nanomaterials, which generally ranges from one to one hundred nanometers (nm), is what distinguishes them from other forms of smart materials. Nanomaterials are a distinctive sort of smart material. The remarkable size of these materials, together with their other physical and chemical properties, makes them an excellent candidate for a broad range of applications, particularly in the field of modern technology. Nanomaterials are very adaptable and successful in a broad variety of applications due to their high surface-to-volume ratios, quantum effects, and increased mechanical, electrical, and optical characteristics. The categorization of nanomaterials into many categories, including metal, metal oxide, quantum dot, Nano alloy, and core shell, is discussed in this review. The classification is based on the literature. In this article, nanoparticles and the uses of each substance in the area of biomedicine, such as diagnosis, Bioimaging, drug transport, anti-bacterial, antiviral, anti-cancer, and dentistry, are discussed.

Keywords

Nanoparticles , Biomedical Applications , Bioimaging , Anticancer , and Drug delivery

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