drug carriers or imaging contrast agents in microscopy. Anisotropic nanoparticles are a good candidate in biomolecular detection. Moreover, nanoparticles for nucleic acid delivery offer an unprecedented opportunity to overcome some drawbacks related to the delivery, owing to their tunability with diverse physico-chemical properties, they can readily be functionalized with any type of biomolecules/moieties for selective targeting. Sunscreens Titanium dioxide nanoparticles imparts what is known as the self-cleaning effect, which lend useful water-repellant and antibacterial properties to paints and other products. Zinc oxide nanoparticles have been found to have superior UV blocking properties and are widely used in the preparation of sunscreen lotions, being completely photostable though toxic. Compounds by industrial area See also Carbon quantum dot Ceramic engineering Coating Colloid Colloidal crystal Colloidal gold Colloid-facilitated transport Eigencolloid Fullerene Gallium(II) selenide Icosahedral twins Indium(III) selenide Liposome Magnetic immunoassay Magnetoelastic filament a.k.a. magnetic nanochain Magnetic nanoparticles Micromeritics Nanobiotechnology Nanocrystalline silicon Nanofluid Nanogeoscience Nanomaterials Nanomedicine Nanoparticle deposition Nanoparticle tracking analysis Nanotechnology Patchy particles Photonic crystal Plasmon Platinum nanoparticle Quantum dot Self-assembly of nanoparticles Silicon quantum dot Silicon Silver Nano Sol–gel process Synthesis of nanoparticles by fungi Transparent material Upconverting nanoparticles References Further reading Nanoparticles Used in Solar Energy Conversion (ScienceDaily). "Nanoparticles: An occupational hygiene review" by RJ Aitken and others. Health and Safety Executive Research Report 274/2004 "EMERGNANO: A review of completed and near completed environment, health and safety research on nanomaterials and nanotechnology" by RJ Aitken and others. High transmission Tandem DMA for nanoparticle studies by SEADM, 2014. External links Nanohedron.com images of nanoparticles Lectures on All Phases of Nanoparticle Science and Technology ENPRA – Risk Assessment of Engineered NanoParticles EC FP7 Project led by the Institute of Occupational Medicine