Insight from nanomaterials and nanotechnology towards COVID-19

Yengkhom Disco Singh; Rina Ningthoujam; Manasa Kumar Panda; Barsarani Jena; Punuri Jayasekhar Babu; Avanindra Kumar Mishra

doi:10.1016/j.sintl.2021.100099

Insight from nanomaterials and nanotechnology towards COVID-19

Sens Int. 2021:2:100099. doi: 10.1016/j.sintl.2021.100099. Epub 2021 May 13.

Authors

Yengkhom Disco Singh¹, Rina Ningthoujam², Manasa Kumar Panda³, Barsarani Jena⁴, Punuri Jayasekhar Babu⁵, Avanindra Kumar Mishra⁶

Affiliations

¹ Biomaterials and Bioprocessing Research Laboratory, Department of Post-Harvest Technology, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Central Agricultural University, Pasighat, 791102, Arunachal Pradesh, India.
² Department of Vegetable Science, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Central Agricultural University, Pasighat, Arunachal Pradesh, 791102, India.
³ Environment & Sustainability Department, CSIR- Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar, 751013, India.
⁴ Department of Botany, School of Applied Sciences, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Bhubaneswar, 752050, Odisha, India.
⁵ Biomaterials and Bioengineering Research Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Mizoram University, Pachhunga University College Campus, Aizawl, 796001, Mizoram , India.
⁶ Deputy Director of Research, Central Agricultural University, Imphal, 7 95004, Manipur, India.

Abstract

The pandemic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) becomes one of the most dreadful disease in the history of mankind in the entire world. The covid-19 outbreak started from Wuhan city of China and then rapidly transmitted throughout the world causing mass destruction and seldom. This sporadical disease has taken many lives due to sudden outbreak and no particular vaccines were available at the early wave. All the vaccines developed are mostly targeted to spike protein of the virus which involves the encapsulation of mRNA and nanoparticles. Nanotechnology intervention in fighting against the covid-19 is one way to tackle the disease from different angles including nano coating mask, nano diagnostic kits, nano sanitizer, and nano medicine. This article highlights the intervention of nanotechnology and its possible treatment against the covid-19. It is high time to come together all the units of material science and biological science to fight against the dreadful COVID-19. As an alternative strategy, a multidisciplinary research effort, consisting of classical epidemiology and clinical methodologies, drugs and nanotechnology, engineering science and biological apprehension, can be adopted for developing improved drugs exhibiting antiviral activities. The employment of nanotechnology and its allied fields can be explored to detect, treat, and prevent the covid-19 disease.

Keywords: Covid-19; Hydroxychloroquine; Nanomaterials; Pandemic; SARS-CoV-2.

Publication types

Review