Nanotechnology Toolkit for Combating COVID‐19 and Beyond
Open Access
- 10 March 2022
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Chemnanomat
- Vol. 8 (4), e202100505
- https://doi.org/10.1002/cnma.202100505
Abstract
The outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 is unlikely to be contained anytime soon with conventional medical technology. This beckons an urgent demand for novel and innovative interventions in clinical protocols, diagnostics, and therapeutics; to manage the current “disease X” and to be poised to counter its successor of like nature if one were to ever arise. To meet such a demand requires more attention to research on the viral-host interactions and on developing expeditious solutions, the kinds of which seem to spring from promising domains such as nanotechnology. Inducing activity at scales comparable to the viruses themselves, nanotechnology based preventive measures, diagnostic tools and therapeutics for Covid-19 have been rapidly growing during the pandemic. This review covers the most recent and promising nanomedicine-based solutions relating to Covid-19 and how some of these are possibly applicable to a wider range of viruses and pathogens. We also discuss the type, composition, and utility of nanostructures which play various roles specifically under prevention, diagnosis, and therapy. Further, we have highlighted the adoption and commercialization of some the solutions by large and small corporations alike, as well as providing herewith an exhaustive list on nanovaccines.Keywords
Funding Information
- Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
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