Dr. Ahmed Abo Dena

Recently, nanotechnology is considered a new avenue that paved the doors for breakthroughs in different applications such as health, environmental sciences, energy, catalysis, agriculture, chemical analysis, and even military purposes.

The role of materials scientists is to design and fabricate/synthesize innovative nanomaterials with specifically tailored properties that allow their utilization in solving public and/or national challenges.

For instance, tailored nanomaterials are suitable for health applications such as smart, targeted drug delivery systems, thus help in the treatment of serious diseases by delivering drugs to their specific site of action.

In addition, certain smart nanomaterials can be used to develop chemosensor and biosensor platforms that respond to minute changes in the concentration of specific analyte molecules that have health, environmental, industrial, and economic impacts.

Furthermore, nanomaterials can be designed to specifically remediate certain pollutants from food, water, pharmaceuticals, etc.

In this scientific presentation, we will shed light on the most recent applications of different types of nanomaterials, and how they are designed, fabricated and characterized.