Nanocatalysis using plasmonic nanoparticles

Abstract

Nanotechnology is a growing branch of science that focuses on the design, production, and manipulation of particle formation with sizes ranging from 1 to 100 nanometer. Due to their small dimensions, the nanoparticles demonstrate completely different physico-chemical and surface properties compared to their bulk counterparts. Nanoparticles (NPs) have tremendous application potential in a variety of fields, including health care, food, mechanics, optics, environmental health, biomedical sciences, cosmetics, chemical industries, electronics, space industries, drug-gene delivery, energy science and so on. It is an interdisciplinary approach that includes biology, chemistry, biochemistry, physics, medicine, and engineering, as well as the exploratory use of NPs in biological systems. Furthermore, nanotechnology is a critical approach in the creation of clean, nontoxic, and environmentally acceptable techniques for the synthesis and assembly of metal NPs with the inherent potential to reduce metals via certain metabolic pathways.