Current Advances in Fungal
Nanobiotechnology: Mycofabrication
and Applications
Th I. Shaheen, S. S. Salem, and A. Fouda
1 Introduction
Nanotechnology is the multidisciplinary science concerned with the creation and
modification of materials in size range between 1 up to 100 nm. Nanotechnology
science is greatly affected by various disciplines, especially physics, chemistry and
biology (Elfeky et al. 2020; Hassan et al. 2019; Mohamed et al. 2019; Shaheen
et al. 2019). This technology provides great opportunities by changing the significant
properties of materials when they are in nano-size. When, the dimension of the
materials is getting closer to nano-size the quantum physics play an important role
instead of conventional laws of physics, which adds different and unique properties to
the material. In other words, nano-science helps us to understand these new behaviors
that emerge in nano-size due to quantum theories. Thus, nanotechnology lets us to
design and synthesize nano-structures and provides us to use these extraordinary
properties in order to generate new material forms and new application areas such as
medicine, pharmacology, environment, textile, green approaches, agricultural, paper
conservation and electronics (Fouda et al. 2019b, c; Mohamed et al. 2019; Mohmed
et al. 2017a; Salem et al. 2020).
Nanobiotechnology is a new branch of nanotechnology, combining biological
approaches with physical and chemical procedures to generate nano-scale size particles with structures and unique function. Nowadays, metal and metal oxide nanoparticles as silver, selenium, iron, platinum, gold, ZnO, TiO 2 and CuO have great popularity because of their many advantageous properties in several fields of applications
(Aygün et al. 2020; El-Batal et al. 2020; El-Sayyad et al. 2019; Elegbede and Lateef
T. I. Shaheen (B)
National Research Centre, Scopus affiliation ID 60014618, 33 El-Behouth St, Dokki, Giza 12622,
Egypt
e-mail: shaheen_chem@yahoo.com
S. S. Salem · A. Fouda
Department of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
A. Lateef et al. (eds.), Microbial Nanobiotechnology, Materials Horizons: From Nature
to Nanomaterials, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4777-9_4
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Nanobiotechnology: Mycofabrication
and Applications
Th I. Shaheen, S. S. Salem, and A. Fouda
1 Introduction
Nanotechnology is the multidisciplinary science concerned with the creation and
modification of materials in size range between 1 up to 100 nm. Nanotechnology
science is greatly affected by various disciplines, especially physics, chemistry and
biology (Elfeky et al. 2020; Hassan et al. 2019; Mohamed et al. 2019; Shaheen
et al. 2019). This technology provides great opportunities by changing the significant
properties of materials when they are in nano-size. When, the dimension of the
materials is getting closer to nano-size the quantum physics play an important role
instead of conventional laws of physics, which adds different and unique properties to
the material. In other words, nano-science helps us to understand these new behaviors
that emerge in nano-size due to quantum theories. Thus, nanotechnology lets us to
design and synthesize nano-structures and provides us to use these extraordinary
properties in order to generate new material forms and new application areas such as
medicine, pharmacology, environment, textile, green approaches, agricultural, paper
conservation and electronics (Fouda et al. 2019b, c; Mohamed et al. 2019; Mohmed
et al. 2017a; Salem et al. 2020).
Nanobiotechnology is a new branch of nanotechnology, combining biological
approaches with physical and chemical procedures to generate nano-scale size particles with structures and unique function. Nowadays, metal and metal oxide nanoparticles as silver, selenium, iron, platinum, gold, ZnO, TiO 2 and CuO have great popularity because of their many advantageous properties in several fields of applications
(Aygün et al. 2020; El-Batal et al. 2020; El-Sayyad et al. 2019; Elegbede and Lateef
T. I. Shaheen (B)
National Research Centre, Scopus affiliation ID 60014618, 33 El-Behouth St, Dokki, Giza 12622,
Egypt
e-mail: shaheen_chem@yahoo.com
S. S. Salem · A. Fouda
Department of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
A. Lateef et al. (eds.), Microbial Nanobiotechnology, Materials Horizons: From Nature
to Nanomaterials, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4777-9_4
113