Medicinal plant-based metabolites in nanoparticles synthesis and their cutting-edge applications: an overview

摘要: Nowadays, nanotechnology has laid a strong foundation for the technological revolution and transformation in medicine, applied science, and engineering. Among renewable and available natural resources, medicinal plants and their biomass have attracted the attention of the scientific community due to their easy availability, ability, and flexibility to choose and use any parts of the plants (leaf, root, stem, flower, bark, fruit, seed, nut, etc.), less complexity during synthesis and low cost. In addition, medicinal plants that have been used as folk medicine throughout the world possess various metabolites (i.e., primary and secondary metabolites). Plant metabolites such as terpenoids, flavonoids, steroids, tannins, proteins, lipids, starches, etc. encompass several functional groups viz, thiols (−SH), carbonyls (–C=O), hydroxyls (–OH), amines (–NH2), amides (–C=ONH2), ethoxy (–C–O–C), and carboxylic acid (–COOH) that …