Tetrapods based Smart Materials for Advancing Healthcare Technologies
Considering the size-dependent utilization complexities of nanoscopic dimensions in real technologies, the focus of the nanomaterials community is converging to three-dimensional (3D) smart nanomaterials, which are built out of interconnected nanostructure building blocks. This talk will briefly introduce the importance of tetrapod nanostructures towards functional 3D nanostructuring via a simple flame-based approach for the synthesis of zinc oxide tetrapods. These tetrapods have already demonstrated their potential roles in many different technologies, including their use as sacrificial templates to design new and multifunctional highly porous materials. These smart 3D nanomaterials offer many applications in engineering and advanced technologies. Application examples of 3D tetrapods in nanosensing, light trapping and guiding, composite engineering, antiviral candidates, water purification, piezotronics, agriculture, and in several other applications will be demonstrated [1-10]. The integration of tetrapods in electrospun fibers offers many advantages in biomedical engineering. This talk will briefly introduce a new concept of designing functional 3D materials and their application scopes in advanced biomedical engineering.
Keywords: Zinc Oxide Tetrapods, Smart Materials, Advanced Biomaterials, Healthcare Technologies