Nanoarchitectonic‐Based Material Platforms for Environmental and Bioprocessing Applications

Abstract

The challenges of pollution, environmental science, and energy consumption have become global issues of broad societal importance. In order to address these challenges, novel functional systems and advanced materials are needed to achieve high efficiency, low emission, and environmentally friendly performance. A promising approach involves nanostructure-level controls of functional material design through a novel concept, nanoarchitectonics. In this account article, we summarize nanoarchitectonic approaches to create nanoscale platform structures that are potentially useful for environmentally green and bioprocessing applications. The introduced platforms are roughly classified into (i) membrane platforms and (ii) nanostructured platforms. The examples are discussed together with the relevant chemical processes, environmental sensing, bio-related interaction analyses, materials for environmental remediation, non-precious metal catalysts, and facile separation for biomedical uses.

Advanced Nanoporous Material–Based QCM Devices: A New Horizon of Interfacial Mass Sensing Technology

“…[40] Materials nanoarchitectonics for bioanalytical sensing applications, such as mesoporous materials, 2D materials, fullerene, and supported lipid bilayers coated QCM and QCM-D sensor were also employed for the detection of toxic gases, cell membrane interactions, anticancer drug evaluation, label-free biomolecular assays, complement activation-related multiprotein membrane attack complexes, and label-free biomolecular assays, which are partially supported by data analysis, such as principal component analysis. [41,42] The QCM technique can also be employed for evaluating This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.…”

Self-assembly as a key player for materials nanoarchitectonics

“…Overall, the nanoarchitectonics concept represents a common standard strategy for materials and system creation in many research fields. Therefore, it has been used in a wide range of research fields and applications including materials production [65][66][67][68], materials fabrication [69,70], materials organization [71][72][73][74], supramolecular assemblies [75][76][77][78], device and physical systems [79,80], sensing [81][82][83][84][85], energy related applications [86][87][88][89][90], environmental strategies [91][92][93][94], and biological and biomedical applications [95][96][97][98][99][100].…”

ZnO nanocrystals derived from organometallic approach: Delineating the role of organic ligand shell on physicochemical properties and nano-specific toxicity

“…Zinc oxide (ZnO) is one of the most versatile semiconductor material with multifarious potential applications and it has been identified as the fifth most widely used material in the consumer products according to “The Nanotechnology Consumer Products Inventory” 1 . Thus, increasing production of a variety of ZnO nanostructures and associated risk of human exposure to these nanomaterials have prompted the need for a reliable evaluation and a detailed understanding of their potential toxicity, which should be no doubt followed by conscious development of safer-by-design strategies 2 and bio-oriented nanoarchitectonics concepts 3,4 . The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considers ZnO as a “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS) substance, but such indication most commonly refers to the non-toxicity and low chemical reactivity of a bulk material.…”