Biomaterials & Nanotechnology Research Group
Nano is an SI prefix and comes from the Greek word for
a “dwarf - Nanos”. A nanometre is a billionth of a meter, that is, about
1/80,000 of the diameter of a human hair, or 10 times the diameter of a
hydrogen atom. Nanoscience is the study of understanding and manipulation of
materials at atomic, molecular, and macromolecular scales. Nanotechnology is
the design, characterization, production, and application of structures,
devices, and systems by controlling shape and size at a nanometre scale. The
scale of dimensions adopted for the applicability of nanotechnology is between
1 and 100 nanometres (nm). Nanotechnology has
wide industrial applications in energy to automotive, medicine to food, textile
to the chemical industry, electric-electronic to forest products industry. Nanomaterials
are created by precisely controlling structures at the nanoscale dimensions to
produce new materials. Nanomaterials, due to their nanoscale dimensions, have
high surface-to-volume ratios and thus very specific properties.
Lignocellulosic
biomaterials are composed mainly of three basic structural components;
cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. Cellulose is the most abundant organic
polymer on Earth. It can be obtained from plants in nature as well as from
various wastes of textile, food, and forest industry. Lignin is one of the most
abundant polymers on Earth, after cellulose and hemicellulose. The studies on
nanotechnology in the field of forest products are mostly on the production of
nanomaterials (nanocellulose) from wood-based lignocellulosic biomaterials. With
the acquisition of sustainable nanomaterials from wood material, which also affects
the storage of atmospheric carbon dioxide, there will a huge contribution to
the transformation of forest resources into high value-added products. Although
the density of nanocellulose is about 5 times lower than steel, its strength is
close to or superior to steel.
Lignocellulosic
nanomaterials can be employed in several areas, such as composites, automotive,
paint, chemistry, electronics, energy, textile, gels/foam,
barrier/separation membranes, cosmetics, food packaging, medical implants,
wound dressings, drug science, tissue engineering.
Biomaterials &
Nanotechnology Research Group is a multidisciplinary group. The Group was found
to work on the above-mentioned research areas.
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