Medical and Cosmetic Applications of Fungal Nanotechnology: Production, Characterization, and Bioactivity
Nowadays, nanotechnology is widely applied for the development of highly efficient products in the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. Converting bioactive materials to nanoscale not only increases their biocompatibility but also increases their effectiveness, even when lower doses are used. Metal nanoparticles can be synthesized by fungal cells both intra- and extracellularly. Stabilization of the physical and chemical properties of various noble metal nanoparticles produced by fungi can be achieved through controlling the size, surface morphology, and surface chemistry of the nanoparticles. Intracellular synthesis provides smaller nanoparticles with well defined dimensions, but contributes to difficulty in downstream processing activity as compared with synthesis by extracellular methods. Recently, the production of nanoparticles from fungi has received extensive attention, owing to the capacity of fungi
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