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RECENT TRENDS IN APPLICATIONS OF NANOTECHNOLOGY

ARCHANA DHYANI

Abstract


The field of pharmaceutical and nanotechnology has been growing rapidly.This review will provide the recent advancement that in the field of nanotechnology .It will focus on the development of multifunctional particles for drug delivery. The current nanotechnology studies have been growing in chemistry and medicine because of applications of nanomaterials mainly in Chemical Engineering, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Keywords


Nanotechnology , genetics, drug delivery, nanocarriers.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijan.v1i1-2.27

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