Nanowire Nanosensors for Biological and Medical Application

Abstract

Nanotechnology becomes an emerging concept and plays an important role in medical science particularly in drug delivery during the treatment of serious sickness. The responses of the nanowire to an electromagnetic field generated by a separate device can be used to control the release of a preloaded drug. This system eliminates tubes and wires required by other implantable devices that can lead to infection and other complications. This tool also allows applying drugs as needed directly to the site of injury. This technology has tremendous potential to improve the precision of lung cancer therapy and has become a key technology in the development of more powerful pharmaceutical treatments against cancer. Nanomedicine products can, be loaded with chemotherapeutic agents and specifically targeted to the tumor site, thus decreasing the side effects and increasing the therapeutic effect of the drugs. Particularly, silver nanomaterials can find many remarkable applications in clinical practice since they possess optimal chemical reactivity for the functionalization of their surfaces with biologically active moieties.