Recent Development in Industrial Scale Fabrication of Nanoparticles and Their Applications

Nanomaterials have been explored actively because of their exceptional size-dependent chemical and physical properties, which enable various applications, such as advanced mechanical materials, electronic and energy storage devices, photocatalysis, sensors, biomedical, etc. Fabrication and development of nanomaterials is a multidisciplinary field covering materials science, biology, chemistry, engineering and physics. These fabricated nanomaterials are being considered for various uses in different industries. Therefore, an active collaboration between the industrial and academic arenas is required in order to figure out the present needs and upcoming challenges to compose a product that can be instantly moved to the industrial sector. However, there are some shortcomings of nanomaterials, as well as the lack of information, regarding this scientific area due to which various industries are still facing the challenge of the negative impact of nanomaterials on human health, sustainability and the environment. It is challenging to produce the material at a high scale with the same properties as small-scale laboratory synthesis. This chapter discusses the general introduction of nanomaterial, their industrial-scale fabrication along with different industrial applications, latest research finding to regulate the utilization and destruction of nanomaterials to reduce their adverse effects on the environment and human health.