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Bionanotechnology is the combination of biotechnology and nanotechnology and it emerged as an ecofriendly technology for the nanomaterials’ biological synthesis. A physicist Professor Richard Feynman in his remarkable speech said “there’s plenty of room at the bottom” devised the idea of nanotechnology (1), yet the Professor Norio Taniguchi of Tokyo Science University introduced the term nanotechnology (2). Nanoparticles are regarded as groups of elements in the range of 1–100 nm. These nanoparticles possess different kind of physiochemical properties; depending upon the material and method from which they are synthesized. Nanoparticles synthesized from plants and their extracts can be safely used for pharmacological devices. This chapter covers some of the aspects in this regard.

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Iqbal, Z., Iqbal, S. (2018). Nanobotany and Pharmaceuticals. In: Javad, S., Butt, A. (eds) Nanobotany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77119-9_7

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