Title: What is Nanomedicine? - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Description: Nanomaterials possess novel physicochemical properties that are different from conventional bulk chemical equivalents, owing to their small size. These properties greatly increase a set of opportunities in drug development. Physicochemical properties of the nano formulation, which can lead to alteration of pharmacokinetics such as absorption, distribution, elimination, and metabolism, has the potential for more easily crossing biological barriers, toxic properties, and their persistence in the environment and human body. Pharmaceutical manufacturing of nanomaterials involves two different approaches that include top-down and bottom-down. The top-down process involves breakdown of a bulk material into a smaller one or smaller pieces by mechanical or chemical energy. Conversely, the bottom-down process starts with atomic or molecular species allowing precursor particles to increase in size through chemical reaction. – PowerPoint PPT presentation