Insight from Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology towards covid-19

Singh, Yengkhom Disco; Ningthoujam, Rina; Panda, Manasa Kumar; Jena, Barsarani; Babu, Punuri Jayasekhar; Mishra, Avanindra Kumar

The pandemic disease coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) becomes one of the most dreaded disease in the history of mankind in the entire world. The covid-19 outbreak started from Wuhan city of China and then rapidly transmitted throughout the world causing mass destruction and seldom. This sporadical disease has taken many lives due to sudden outbreak and no particular vaccines were available at the early waves. All the vaccines developed are mostly targeted to spike protein of the virus and there is encapsulation of mRNA and nanoparticles. Nanotechnology intervention in the fighting against the covid-19 is one way to tackle the disease from different angle including nano coating mask, nano diagnostic kits, nano sanitizer, and nano medicine. This article highlights the intervention of nanotechnology and its possible treatment against the covid-19. It is high time to come together all the units of material science and biological science to fight against the dreaded covid-19. As an alternative strategy, a multidisciplinary research effort, consisting of classical epidemiology and clinical methodologies, drugs and nanotechnology, engineering science and biological apprehension, can be adopted for developing improved drugs exhibiting antivirals activities. Nanotechnology can be explored to detect, treat, and prevent the covid-19 disease.