Nanobiotechnology: platform technology for biomaterials and biological applications the nanostructures

Abstract

Nanotechnology is a science field that has been developping amazingly together with the biotechnology, mixing the knowledge of material science and chemistry with the biology. This review article links the know-how of biomaterials in the recent years, like carbohydrates and proteins with those about nananoparticles, self-assembled systems, nanofilms, nanoemulsions and nanoestructures for active compounds for encapsulation. The economical impact of nanotech products is in order of trillions of US dollars, and nanobiotechnology has a great share of this market. The sectors that have benefits with the development of products, technics, methodology and processes on nanometric scale are the health, food and agroindustry. The last one represents a fertile field for applications on a large scale. The nanobiotechnology is a reality and the knowledge of biomateriais, biological sciences and engineering, through the union of different research groups on their specific fields, allows the conception of products never considered many years ago.