Over the past few years, nanotechnology has been attracting considerable research attention because of their outstanding mechanical, electromagnetic and optical properties. Nanotechnology is an interdisciplinary field comprising nanomaterials, nanoelectronics, and nanobiotechnology, as three areas which extensively overlap. The application of metal nanoparticles (MNPs) has drawn much attention offering significant advances, especially in the field of medicine by increasing the therapeutic index of drugs through site specificity preventing multidrug resistance and delivering therapeutic agents efficiently. Apart from drug delivery, some other applications of MNPs in medicine are also well known such as in vivo and in vitro diagnostics and production of enhanced biocompatible materials and nutraceuticals. The use of metallic nanoparticles for drug delivery systems has significant advantages, such as increased stability and half-life of drug carrier in circulation, required biodistribution, and passive or active targeting into the required target site. Green synthesis of MNPs is an emerging area in the field of bionanotechnology and provides economic and environmental benefits as an alternative to chemical and physical methods. Therefore, this review aims to provide up-to-date insights on the current challenges and perspectives of MNPs in drug delivery systems. The present review was mainly focused on the greener methods of metallic nanocarrier preparations and its surface modifications, applications of different MNPs like silver, gold, platinum, palladium, copper, zinc oxide, metal sulfide and nanometal organic frameworks in drug delivery systems.

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Biofabrication of CuNps from AmC aqueous leaf extract of various sizes with good anti-inflammatory and mosquito larvicidal efficacy.

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A new family of [V6O19]8− cluster based covalent hybrids containing Tris functionalized (Tris=tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane) organic motifs such as naphthalene, quinoline and carbazole have been synthesized and characterized. These new vanadium cluster hybrids exhibited remarkable in vitro antioxidant properties under standard experimental conditions. The covalent grafting of the organic units enhanced the antioxidant properties of the hybrids in comparison to the starting compound, [H3V10O28]3−. The antioxidant properties exhibited by these hybrids correlated well with their reducing powers.

Highly efficient, solvent-free protocol for the synthesis of polysubstituted quinolines via Friedlander annulation using nickel nanoparticles from Aegle Marmelos Correa aqueous leaf extract.

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