Applications of Green Nano Materials and Its Importance – a Review (original) (raw)

Nanotechnology is a new and emerging technology with wealth of applications. It involves the synthesis and application of materials having one of the dimensions in the range of 1–100 nm. A wide variety of physico–chemical approaches are being used these days for the synthesis of nanoparticles (NPs). However, biogenic reduction of metal precursors to produce corresponding NPs is ecofriendly, less expensive, free of chemical contaminants for medical and biological applications where purity of NPs is of major concern. Plants materials or extracts contains lots of inherent phytochemicals, which will further act as reducing agents for the source chemical in nano particles production chain. Present review focuses on plants based green synthesis of Ag, Au, Cu, Fe, Pd, Ru, PbS, CdS, CuO, CeO2, Fe3O4, TiO2, and ZnO NPs and their potential applications. Nano particles are very useful in the field of food industries and pharmaceutical industries, lots of green synthesied nano materials are use...