Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Design

Nanomedicine

Nanotechnology is regulation of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale. The earliest, widespread characterization of nanotechnology assign to the particular technological goal of precisely manipulating atoms and molecules for design of macroscale products, also now assigned to as molecular nanotechnology. A more observed description of nanotechnology was subsequently fixed by the National Nanotechnology Initiative, which defines nanotechnology as the accomplishment of material with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometers. This definition match the fact that quantum mechanical effects are imperative at this quantum-realm scale, and so the definition shifted from a particular technological aim to a research category inclusive of all types of research and technologies that arrangement with the special properties of matter which appear below the given size threshold. It is therefore common to observe the plural form "nanotechnologies" such as "nanoscale technologies" to refer to the broad range of research and applications whose common trait is size.

Nanomedicine is the medical function of nanotechnology. Nanomedicine ranges from the medical functions of nanomaterials and biological devices, to nanoelectronic biosensors, and even possible future functions of molecular nanotechnology such as biologicals machines. Present problems for nanomedicine affect understanding the issues similar to toxicity and environmental encounter of nanoscale materials.