Current status of environmental, health, and safety issues of functionalized nanomaterials

Over the past decades, an abundant deal of work has been devoted to the production of nanoscale materials for environmental remediation. Favorable outcomes have been attained in this regard where scholars managed to improve nanomaterials that propose the probability of effective adsorption or destruction of contaminants and sterilization of bacteriological pollutants and also the great development in recognition of chemical and biological constituents. In this regard, the main problem before assembling regarding nanotechnology is how better to protect human health, safety, and the environment as nanosized materials and products are investigated, established, synthesized, used, and thrown out. However, the fast-emerging field of nanotechnology is whispered by numerous to offer important cost-effective and societal benefits, some investigation outcomes have raised concerns about the potential adverse environmental, health, and safety suggestions of nanosized materials. Functionalization of the nanomaterials possesses the ability to scheme new materials and devices that take benefit of unique occurrences obtainable by the nanosized materials with the convenient solutions to enhance the disadvantages that hinder the full-scale application of nanotechnology in the environmental field. This simultaneous perception recommends the significance of initial consideration and extent of the diffusion of nanomaterial environmental, health, and safety research.