Abstracto

Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology - Applications of Nanotechnology in Pharmaceutics

Pratibha Muntha

Nanotechnology deals with the study of smaller structures with a size range between 0.1 to 100 nm. It covers various areas like biophysics, molecular biology, and bioengineering and sub specialties of medicine such as cardiology, ophthalmology, endocrinology, oncology, immunology etc... Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology applies the methods and principles of Nano science and nano medicine to pharmacy to develop new drug delivery systems which can overcome the drawbacks of conventional drug delivery systems.