Fungal Nanobionics: Principles and Applications

✍ Scribed by Ram Prasad, Vivek Kumar, Manoj Kumar, Shanquan Wang

• Publisher: Springer Singapore
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 325
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Fungal nanobionics has great prospects for developing new products with industrial, agriculture, medicine and consumer applications in a wide range of sectors. The fields of chemical engineering, agri-food, biochemical, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics and medical device development all employ fungal products, with fungal nanomaterials currently used in a wide range of applications, ranging from drug development to food industry and agricultural sector. The fungal agents emerge as an environmentally friendly, clean, non‐toxic agent for the biogenic metal nanoparticles and employs both intracellular and extracellular methods. The simplicity of scaling up and downstream processing and the presence of fungal mycelia affording an increased surface area provide key advantages. In addition, the larger spectrum of synthesized nanoparticle morphologies and the substantially faster biosynthesis rate in cell-free filtrate (due to the higher amount of proteins secreted in fungi) make this a particularly enticing route. Understanding the diversity of fungi in assorted ecosystems, as well as their interactions with other microorganisms, animals and plants, is essential to underpin real and innovative technological developments and the applications of metal nanoparticles in many disciplines including agriculture, catalysis, and biomedical biosensors. Importantly, biogenic fungal nanoparticles show significant synergistic characteristics when combined with antibiotics and fungicides to offer substantially greater resistance to microbial growth and applications in nanomedicine ranging from topical ointments and bandages for wound healing to coated stents.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii
Nanobiocomposites: Synthesis and Environmental Applications (Luiz Fernando Cotica, Adriana Garcia, Andressa Domingos Polli, Raquel Dosciatti Bini, Thaís de Chaves, Verci Alves de Oliveira Junior et al.)....Pages 1-19
Medical and Cosmetic Applications of Fungal Nanotechnology: Production, Characterization, and Bioactivity (Hesham A. El Enshasy, Nagib A. El Marzugi, Elsayed A. Elsayed, Ong Mei Ling, Roslinda Abd Malek, Afif Najiha Kepli et al.)....Pages 21-59
Fungal Nanoparticles: A Novel Tool for a Green Biotechnology? (Shadia M. Abdel-Aziz, Ram Prasad, Ahmed A. Hamed, Mohamed Abdelraof)....Pages 61-87
Application of Nanotechnology in Mycoremediation: Current Status and Future Prospects (Mohammadhassan Gholami-Shabani, Zeynab Gholami-Shabani, Masoomeh Shams-Ghahfarokhi, Mehdi Razzaghi-Abyaneh)....Pages 89-116
Fungal Nanotechnology: A New Approach Toward Efficient Biotechnology Application (Cintia Mariana Romero, Analía Alvarez, María Alejandra Martínez, Silvina Chaves)....Pages 117-143
Advances in Biomedical Application of Chitosan and Its Functionalized Nano-derivatives (Jobina Rajkumari, Siddhardha Busi)....Pages 145-163
Biosynthesis of Metal Nanoparticles via Fungal Dead Biomass in Industrial Bioremediation Process (Marcia Regina Salvadori, Rômulo Augusto Ando, Cláudio Augusto Oller Nascimento, Benedito Corrêa)....Pages 165-199
Nanofabrication of Myconanoparticles: A Future Prospect (Rajender Boddula, Priyanka Dubey, Saurabh Gautam, Ramyakrishna Pothu, Aditya Saran)....Pages 201-213
In Vitro Secondary Metabolite Production Through Fungal Elicitation: An Approach for Sustainability ( Shasmita, Nihar Ranjan Singh, Sakti Kanta Rath, Shashikanta Behera, Soumendra Kumar Naik)....Pages 215-242
Metal and Metal Oxide Mycogenic Nanoparticles and Their Application As Antimicrobial and Antibiofilm Agents (Siddhardha Busi, Parasuraman Paramanantham)....Pages 243-271
Applications of Fungal Nanobiotechnology in Drug Development (Kanti Bhooshan Pandey, Brahm Kumar Tiwari)....Pages 273-286
Mycosynthesized Nanoparticles: Role in Food Processing Industries (Lakshmishri Roy, Debabrata Bera, Sunita Adak)....Pages 287-316

✦ Subjects

Life Sciences; Agriculture; Nanotechnology; Sustainable Development; Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology; Mycology