Nanometrology and nanoanalytics: annotation in the bioanalytical and nano(biomedical)pharmaceutical context

Abstract

This annotation addresses the concepts of nanometrology and nanoanalytics, highlighting the importance of measurements and their metrological traceability at the nanoscale. The interdisciplinary nature of both analytical chemistry and nanotechnology is emphasized. This requires joining the efforts of different fields, e.g. chemistry, medicine, pharmacy, biology, materials science engineering, to face with guarantee the challenges that arise on different fronts. Some notes about nanomaterials and nanoparticles of interest in the bioanalytical and pharmaceutical context are commented. When it comes to therapeutic agents, nanomedicines help overcome the solubility, permeability, bioavailability, and toxicity limitations of conventional approaches, opening the door to precision therapies and personalized medicine. Being one of the objectives of analytical chemistry to carry out analysis at the nanometric scale, it also plays a role as an actor do your bit in the collective concert whose mission is to safeguard human health. Keywords: nanometrology; nanoanalytics; nanomedicine