Nanostructured Materials and Biomedical Applications

The emerging fields based on nanoscale science, engineering and technology are fundamentally centred around our ability to develop new materials at the atomic and molecular level and to employ them to achieve novel properties for next generation devices and systems. Hybrid nanostructures are found to be much more promising as we can integrate the properties of the constituents and achieve synergetic effects. One of the most promising aspects of the emergent field of polymer nanostructuration is the ability to generate a variety of different morphologies with structural definition on the nanometric scale. Polymer nanocomposites are very promising for various applications particularly in the field of nanomedicine. The properties and behaviors of the nanostructured materials depend on both, the nature of its molecular constituents and their precise spatial positioning. In this talk, the results of our recent works on biodegradable electrospun PCL/PVDF-TrFE membranes containing ZnO and TiO2 nanoparticles as skin substitutes with microbial barrier and wound healing properties, graphene based quantum structures, core-shell quantum structures and ferromagnetic/superparamagntic nanoparticles with particular emphasis on their possible applications as fluorescent labeling materials and biosensors will be discussed.