Biological synthesis employing microorganisms, fungi or plants is an alternative method to produce nanoparticles in low-cost and eco-friendly ways.

• front-matter
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
• 1
  • Introduction to Bioinspired Nanomaterials
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Emerging strategies for greener routes
  • 3. Bioinspired route of nanomaterial synthesis
    • 3.1 Microorganisms mediated nanomaterials
    • 3.2 Virus mediated nanomaterials
    • 3.3 Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) mediated nanomaterials
    • 3.4 Protein mediated nanomaterials synthesis
  • 4. Applications of bioinspired nanomaterials
    • 4.1 Medicinal applications
    • 4.2 Energy and environmental applications
  • 5. Challenges and opportunities in bioinspired nanomaterials
    • 5.1 Challenges
    • 5.2 Opportunities
  • 6. Summary and outlook
  • References
• 2
  • Bioinspired Metal Nanoparticles for Microbicidal Activity
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Introduction to Biogenic Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles using Plant Extracts
    • 2.1 Silver nanoparticle
    • 2.2 Copper nanoparticle
    • 2.3 Gold nanoparticle
    • 2.4 TiO2 NPs
  • 3. Summary
  • Future Perspective
  • References
• 3
  • Bioinspired Nanomaterials for Drug Delivery
  • 1. Introduction
    • 1.1 Bioinspired biomimetic materials
    • 1.2 Nano engineering of biomaterials and their biomedical applications
    • 1.3 Advantages of bioinspired materials
    • 1.4 Advanced bioinspired nanodelivery systems
  • 2. Advanced bioinspired nano delivery systems
    • 2.1 Albumin based nano drug delivery systems
    • 2.2 Examples of bio-inspired delivery systems in clinical trials
    • 2.3 Polysaccharide based nano drug delivery systems
  • 3. Design of glycan-based delivery systems
  • 4. Hyaluronic acid
  • 5. Keratin
  • 6. Cellulose
  • 7. Chitosan
  • 8. Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs)
  • 9. Nucleic acid based nanodelivery systems
  • 10. Lipid based nanodelivery systems
  • 11. SLNs and NLC
  • 12. Peptide based nanodelivery systems
  • 13. Bacteria/ Viral-based delivery systems
  • 14. β-Sheet
  • 15. Peptide amphiphiles
  • 16. Virus-inspired drug delivery systems
  • 17. Mammalian cell-based drug delivery systems
  • 18. Erythrocytes (RBCs)
  • 19. Immune cells
  • 20. Stem cells
  • 21. Platelets
  • 22. Concluding remarks and future perspectives
  • References
• 4
  • Bio-Mediated Synthesis of Nanomaterials for Packaging Applications
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Metal nanoparticles as fillers in packaging materials
  • 3. Biosynthesized AgNPs
    • 3.1 Biological synthesis of AgNPs using bacterial strains
    • 3.2 Biological synthesis of AgNPs using fungi species
  • 4. Bioreduction of AgNPs using plant extracts
  • 5. Anti-microbial activity of AgNPs
  • 6. Packaging materials with AgNPs
  • 7. Biosynthesized ZnNPs/ ZnONPs
  • 8. Packaging materials with ZnNPs/ ZnONPs
  • 9. Biosynthesized CuNPs/ CuONPs
  • 10. Packaging materials with CuNPs/ CuONPs
  • 11. Titanium dioxide nanoparticles used as additives in food packaging
  • 12. Other metal and metal oxide nanoparticles used as additives in packaging
  • Conclusions
  • List of abbreviations
  • References
• 5
  • Bio-Mediated Synthesis of Metal Nanomaterials for SERS Application
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Styles and advantages of DNA in nanomaterials designs
  • 3. Introduction of surface enhanced raman spectroscopy (SERS)
    • 3.1 Mechanisms in SERS
    • 3.1.1 Electromagnetic enhancement (EM)
    • 3.1.2 Chemical enhancement (CHEM)
  • 4. Factors influencing the SERS enhancement
    • 4.1 Role of hotspot in SERS
    • 4.2 SERS substrates
  • 5. Methodologies in the synthesis of DNA mediated nanomaterials
    • 5.1 Incubation method of preparing DNA based nanomaterials
    • 5.2 Wet-chemical method of preparing DNA based nanomaterials
    • 5.2.1 DNA stabilized nanomaterials in aqueous medium
    • 5.2.2 DNA stabilized nanomaterials in organic medium
    • 5.3 DNA stabilized nanomaterials preparation by photoreduction
    • 5.4 Seed mediated method of preparing DNA based nanomaterials
  • 6. Surface enhanced raman scattering (SERS) applications
  • 7. Conclusions of DNA based metal nanostructures for SERS studies
  • References
• 6
  • Bio-Mediated Synthesis of Nanoparticles for Fluorescence Sensors
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Synthesis of nanoparticles
    • 2.1 Microorganism-mediated synthesis
    • 2.2 Non-enzymatic reduction
    • 2.3 Microorganism-mediated surfactant-directed synthesis
    • 2.4 Virus-templated synthesis
    • 2.5 Metallization with wild-type viruses
    • 2.6 Assembly and size control of virus-templated MNMs
    • 2.7 Biomineralization using live plants.
    • 2.8 Synthesis of MNMs using plant extracts.
  • 3. Interfaces of bio-metal systems as sensor
    • 3.1 Colorimetric sensors
    • 3.2 Fluorescent sensors
  • Conclusions and future perspective
  • References
• 7
  • Bio-Mediated Synthesis of Quantum Dots for Fluorescent Biosensing and Bio-Imaging Applications
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Bio-mediated synthesis of quantum dots
    • 2.1 Quantum dots synthesis from living organisms
    • 2.2 Quantum dots synthesis from biomimetic systems
  • 3. Quantum dots for targeted biosensors
    • 3.1 Fluorescence resonance energy transfer based biosensors
    • 3.2 Bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) based biosensors
    • 3.3 Chemiluminescence resonance energy transfer (CRET) based biosensors
  • 4. Quantum dots for targeted bioimaging
    • 4.1 In vivo multicolor, multimodal and multiplex imaging
    • 4.2 Near-Infrared (NIR) quantum dots for deep tissue imaging
  • Conclusions and future perspectives
  • References
• 8
  • Bio-Mediated Synthesis of Nanomaterials for Electrochemical Sensor Applications
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Why bio-mediated synthesis is more important
    • 2.1 Bacteria
    • 2.2 Fungi
    • 2.3 Yeasts
    • 2.4 Biopolymers
    • 2.5 Plants
    • 2.6 Mechanism for the bio-mediated synthesis
    • 2.7 Bio-mediated synthesis of metal nanoparticles
  • 3. Electrochemical sensors for the determination of pollutants
  • 4. Bio-mediated metal nanoparticles and its electrochemical sensing towards toxic chemicals
    • 4.1 Bio-mediated bimetallic nanoparticles and its electrochemical sensing applications
    • 4.2 Bio-mediated synthesis of various metal oxide nanoparticles and its electrochemical sensing applications
    • 4.3 Carbon based nanomaterials and its electrochemical sensing applications
  • Conclusions and future outlook
  • References
• back-matter
  • Keyword Index
  • About the Editors