A Review on Nanoparticles in Mosquito Control - A Green Revolution in Future
Journal Title: International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology (IJRASET) - Year 2014, Vol 2, Issue 12
Abstract
Mosquitoes are the potential vectors of many diseases, including malaria, filariasis, dengue, brain fever, etc. There is an urgent need to check the proliferation of the population of vector mosquitoes in order to reduce vector borne diseases by appropriate control methods. Mosquito control is of serious concern in developing countries like India due to the lack of general awareness, development of resistance, and socioeconomic reasons. Nanotechnology, a promising field of research opens up in the present decade and is expected to give major impulses to technical innovations in a variety of industrial sectors in the future. Over the past few decade, nanoparticles of noble metals such as silver exhibited significantly distinct physical, chemical and biological properties from their bulk counterparts. Nano-size particles of less than 100 nm in diameter are currently attracting increasing attention for the wide range of new applications in various fields of industry. Presently, there is a need for increasing the efforts to develop newer and effective methods to control mosquito vectors. The existing chemical and biological methods are not as effective as in earlier period owing to different technical and operational reasons. In particular, this present paper focused on potential role of nanoparticles in mosquito control.
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Priya S, Santhi S
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