Nanotoxicology

Hemant Kumar Daima is A/Professor at Amity University Rajasthan, India and honorary ‘Visiting Research Fellow’ at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Prior to Amity University, he has worked as A/Professor of Nanomedicine at Siddaganga Institute of Technology, India; Research Associate/Tutor at RMIT University, Australia and Research Fellow at University of Rajasthan, India. Dr. Daima obtained his MSc (Biotechnology) from University of Rajasthan, India; PhD (Applied Biology and Nanobiotechnology) from RMIT University, Australia. Dr. Daima is founder of Nano-Bio Interfacial Research Laboratory (NBIRL), and in-charge of newly established Amity University Science and Instrumentation Center-II (AUSIC-II). S. L. Kothari, FBS, FISPM, FNASc, FNAAS is Distinguished Professor of Biotechnology and Vice-President of Amity Science Technology and Innovation Foundation (ASTIF) at Amity University Rajasthan, Jaipur, India. Professor S.L. Kothari graduated from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India in 1984 with PhD, and during his long career he held post-doctoral positions as Fulbright Fellow at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA (1983-84); University of Nottingham, UK as Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow and Rockefeller Foundation Biotechnology Career Fellow (1989-1996); University of Tsukuba, Japan as Visiting Foreign Research Fellow (2003-04). He held academic positions as Professor, Head of Department and Dean Faculty of Science at the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur; and later as Director, Institute of Biotechnology and Pro Vice Chancellor of Amity University Rajasthan, Jaipur. His efforts resulted in to the establishment of Converging Technologies Centre (nano-bio-info-cogno) at the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur that imparts BTech-MTech dual degree in four different streams of Converging Technologies. Suresh Bhargava is Distinguished Professor, Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor (India) and the Founding Director of the Centre for Advanced Materials & Industrial Chemistry at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He obtained his PhD from the University of Exeter, UK and was conferred a DSc (Honoris Causa) by University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India. Professor Bhargava is a world-renowned interdisciplinary scientist and is recognized for delivering research excellence that underpins significant industrial applications. He published more than 439 journal articles and more than 200 industrial reports.

Chapter 1 Nanomaterials: Types of Nanomaterials and Their

Fundamental Physicochemical Properties....................................... 1

A. Shubha, S. R. Manohara, and S. S. Subhranshu

Chapter 2 Innovations in Nanotechnology for Biomedical Sensing,

Imaging, Drug Delivery, and Therapy........................................... 21

Anine Crous and Heidi Abrahamse

Chapter 3 Nanomaterials for Drug Delivery.................................................. 43

Shailja Jain, Srividya Gorantla, and Gautam Singhvi

Chapter 4 PLGA-Based Nanoparticulate Systems: New Trends in

Nanomedicine................................................................................ 73

Devendra Jain, Abhijeet Singh, Bjorn John Stephen,

Suman Sanadhya, Hemant Kumar Daima,

Harishkumar Madhyastha, and Radha Madhyastha

Chapter 5 Employing New Targeted Nanoencapsulation for

Alzheimer’s Disease Treatment: A Change for the Better?........... 97

Arti Devi and Zaved Ahmed Khan

Chapter 6 Nanomaterials-Assisted Elicitation of

Pharmaceutically Important Secondary Metabolites from

In Vitro Plant Cell Cultures...........................................................117

Sekhar Tiwari, Sachin Kumar Verma, Abhishek Bhargava,

Anusha Ebenezer Alpheus, Rasanpreet Kaur,

Rajesh Sharma, and Neeraj Khare

Chapter 7 Impact of Nanomaterials on Health and Environment................ 133

Faisal Ali, Kanwal Akhtar, Ahmed Nawaz, M. Munir Sajid,

Naveed Akhtar Shad, Muhammad Abdul Qayyum, and Yasir Javed

Chapter 8 Consequences of Nanomaterials on Human

Health and Ecosystem.................................................................. 157

Priyanka Kumari, Richa Seth, and Abha Meena

Chapter 9 Conceptual Understanding of the Mechanisms of

Nanotoxicity and Safety of Nanomedicines................................. 201

Rotimi Damilare, Maimako Rotdelmwa, Ashonibare

Victory, Ogunnupebi Temitope, and Adeyemi Oluyomi Stephen

Chapter 10 Insights into the Mechanisms of Nanotoxicity and

Evaluation of Nanomaterials........................................................ 225

Vinod Kumar Yata

Chapter 11 Sensors to Monitor and Evaluate the Toxicity of

Nanomedicine Applications......................................................... 245

Bambang Kuswandi

Chapter 12 Systems Approaches for Toxicological

Assessment of Nanomaterials...................................................... 277

Hasmik Yepiskoposyan, Marja Talikka,

Vincenzo Belcastro, Nikolai V. Ivanov, Diego Marescotti,

Manuel C. Peitsch, and Julia Hoeng

Chapter 13 Measurement of Oxygen Consumption Rate Based on

Fluorescence Intensity and Lifetime as a Strategy to Assess

Nanotoxicity................................................................................. 303

T. Sushma, Hemant Kumar Daima, D. R. Ramesh Babu,

S. Amutha, and Sangly P. Srinivas

Chapter 14 Current Knowledge on Toxicity of Nanomaterials:

Toxicity Assessment and Impact.................................................. 339

Bhaskar Das, Mayuri Chabukdhara, Sanjukta Patra, and

Manashjit Gogoi

Chapter 15 The Role of Nanotechnology in the Management of

Water Toxicity.............................................................................. 377

Vinod Kumar Yata

Chapter 16 Challenges in the Assessment of Nanotoxicity,

Recommendations, and Safe-by-Design Nanomedicines to

Counter Toxicological Problems.................................................. 393

G. V. S. Subbaroy Sarma, Manoj Kumar Enamala,

Maria P. Nikolova, Murthy Chavali, and

Sudhakar Reddy Pamanji

Chapter 17 Current Guidelines and Regulatory Challenges, Insight into

the Legal, Societal, and Ethical Issues of Nanomaterials............ 445

Harjeet Nath, S. S. Subhranshu, and S. R. Manohara