Polymer Based Nanocomposite: Recent Trend in Safety Assessment in Biomedical Application

Abstract

The breakthrough and rapid developments of nanotechnologies has become one of the significant technological advances in every sector especially in biomedical sectors (Kim et al. 2018; Müller et al. 2017). Among these nanotechnologies, polymer-based nanocomposites (NCs) are the most famous one owing to the unique properties of nanomaterials. It can be defined as a mixture of two or more-phase materials forming solids where one or more dispersed phase is in nanoscale and a polymeric major phase (Müller et al. 2017). Polymer-based NCs could be synthesized with the combination of polymers and inorganic/organic nanoparticles which have obtained extensive research due of its distinctive physiochemical properties, outstanding mechanical strength and their high surface-to-volume ratio.