Natural resources like virus, bacteria, fungi, algae, and plants have plethora of metabolites that have shown nanobiotechnological potential. Both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell are an efficient bioreactor for synthesis of diverse types of metal and metal oxide nanoparticles. Biogenic nanoparticles could provide a green, environmentally benign, rapid, and efficient route for fabrication of biocompatible nanostructures with exotic physicochemical and optoelectronic properties. Thus, understanding the underlying cellular mechanism is very crucial for designing a tailor-made, well optimized process for synthesis of nanostructures of desired size, shape, and properties. These nanoparticles with exotic shape and size can have potential applications in the field of environmental remediation of heavy metals, hazardous dyes, pesticides, oil spills, and hypersalinity. Likewise these biogenic nanoparticles may also be used as potential biocontrol agents for addressing the plant diseases and resisting the crop losses. Further, biogenic nanoparticles can play a significant role in infection control, drug delivery and bioimaging.
In spite of recent advancements in material science, chemistry, metabolomics, metagenomics, computational biology individually, no multidisciplinary study for the identification of specific pathways responsible for biogenic synthesis of advanced biomaterials are reported to date. Similarly, high throughput screening, process optimization, and mathematical modelling could provide insight into how complex cellular metabolites from the natural resources take part in shape evolution and determine the dimension of the nanomaterials during the biofabrication process. Additionally, in this Research Topic, we would like to highlight recent advances in the doped, bimetallic and functionalized biomaterials for environmental, agricultural and therapeutic applications. We welcome contributions in the form of reviews and original research topics dealing with the biofabrication of nanomaterials with multivariate applications.
We welcome Original Research, Review, Mini Review and Perspective articles on themes including, but not limited to:
• Bioprocess development for microbial synthesis of nanoparticles
• Mycogenic nanoparticles and their applications
• Phyco(algae) and Phyto (plant)-assisted synthesis of nanoparticles
• Potential mechanism of biofabrication of nanoparticle
• Nanobiotechnology of microbial endophytes
• Biogenic nanoparticles as biocontrol agents
• Removal of refractory pollutants using nanobiotechnology
• Biomedical applications of biogenic nanoparticles
• Bacteriophages as nanotemplates
Natural resources like virus, bacteria, fungi, algae, and plants have plethora of metabolites that have shown nanobiotechnological potential. Both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell are an efficient bioreactor for synthesis of diverse types of metal and metal oxide nanoparticles. Biogenic nanoparticles could provide a green, environmentally benign, rapid, and efficient route for fabrication of biocompatible nanostructures with exotic physicochemical and optoelectronic properties. Thus, understanding the underlying cellular mechanism is very crucial for designing a tailor-made, well optimized process for synthesis of nanostructures of desired size, shape, and properties. These nanoparticles with exotic shape and size can have potential applications in the field of environmental remediation of heavy metals, hazardous dyes, pesticides, oil spills, and hypersalinity. Likewise these biogenic nanoparticles may also be used as potential biocontrol agents for addressing the plant diseases and resisting the crop losses. Further, biogenic nanoparticles can play a significant role in infection control, drug delivery and bioimaging.
In spite of recent advancements in material science, chemistry, metabolomics, metagenomics, computational biology individually, no multidisciplinary study for the identification of specific pathways responsible for biogenic synthesis of advanced biomaterials are reported to date. Similarly, high throughput screening, process optimization, and mathematical modelling could provide insight into how complex cellular metabolites from the natural resources take part in shape evolution and determine the dimension of the nanomaterials during the biofabrication process. Additionally, in this Research Topic, we would like to highlight recent advances in the doped, bimetallic and functionalized biomaterials for environmental, agricultural and therapeutic applications. We welcome contributions in the form of reviews and original research topics dealing with the biofabrication of nanomaterials with multivariate applications.
We welcome Original Research, Review, Mini Review and Perspective articles on themes including, but not limited to:
• Bioprocess development for microbial synthesis of nanoparticles
• Mycogenic nanoparticles and their applications
• Phyco(algae) and Phyto (plant)-assisted synthesis of nanoparticles
• Potential mechanism of biofabrication of nanoparticle
• Nanobiotechnology of microbial endophytes
• Biogenic nanoparticles as biocontrol agents
• Removal of refractory pollutants using nanobiotechnology
• Biomedical applications of biogenic nanoparticles
• Bacteriophages as nanotemplates
