Pimenta dioica mediated green synthesis of metal and metal composite nanoparticles for biomedical applications

Abstract

Nanotechnology is a multidisciplinary field of research that involves research in disciplines, like physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering [1]. It has provided a bigger platform to different scientific communities for collaborative research, which could impact society significantly [2]. Nanotechnology is about the control, restructuring, and understanding of the matter at the nanometer scale (i.e., less than 100 nm) to produce substances or materials which show fundamentally new functions and properties due to their large surface area to volume ratio [3]. In the last few years, there has been significant progress in nanoscience and technology because of new nanomaterial synthesis methods, characterization, and manipulation [4-6]. Their applications in devices have started affecting daily human life at various levels, such as communication, health, etc.