ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses applications of nanotechnological knowledge for the improvement and refinement of processes and materials to illustrate basic concepts used in nanoscience. Nanotechnology can be likened as a discipline where natural sciences, such as chemical physics and engineering, and life sciences meet, enrich one another, and provide a fertile ground for the development of systems with clinical relevance, to name one fast growing area of commercially lucrative research and development. Progress in nanotechnology, which is a multidisciplinary and integrative scientific discipline, improves our daily existence by improving existing systems, processes, and materials. The governing principle of nanotechnology is to take advantage of the properties of nanoparticles for the development of devices and processes. The chapter also discusses applications of nanotechnological knowledge for the improvement and refinement of processes and materials to illustrate basic concepts used in nanoscience. It explores the area of designed materials, and describes biodegradable polymers to aid theranostics in cancer medicine.
