Nanobiotechnology for the Environment: Innovative Solutions for the Management of Harmful Algal Blooms

• DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.7b04271
• Publication Date: 2017-11-21T13:57:38Z
• Authors: Matthew R. Gellert; Beum Jun Kim; Samuel E. Reffsin; Sebastian E. Jusuf; Nicole D. Wagner; Stephen C. Winans; Mingming Wu
• Keywords: Nanobiotechnology

Nanobiotechnology has played important roles in solving contemporary health problems, including cancer and diabetes, but not yet been widely exploited for problems food security environmental protection. Water scarcity is an emerging worldwide problem as a result of climate change population increase. Current methods managing water resources are efficient or sustainable. In this perspective, we focus on harmful algal blooms to demonstrate how nanobiotechnology can be explored understand microbe-environment interactions allow toxin/pollutant detection with significantly improved sensitivity. These capabilities hold potential future development sustainable solutions drinking management.