Opportunities and potential of green chemistry in nanotechnology

Green chemistry and nano-engineering are aimed at increasing products efficiencies in the chemical supply chain and reducing health and environmental hazards. This study stresses how principles and measurements of green chemistry can affect, from design through disposal, the complete life cycle of a chemical. Nanotechnology, as a rapidly developing field, provides an educational framework for investigating the influence and implementation of Green Chemistry in the real world. Both are propelled by a wide range of inventiveness, and both are intended to usher in a new era of technological advancement. In this paper, the application and impact of modern green technologies, as well as future potential for transdisciplinary interaction, are discussed. The 12 Green Chemistry Principles, initially published in 1998, give a framework accepted by not only chemists, but also designers and policymakers. The implementation of the principles was prompted by decades of inadvertent environmental harm and the effects on human health from chemical production and use of dangerous chemicals. But the principles for the synthesis and manufacture of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) are employed for more than decades. Even while the entire scientific community promotes advancements in nanotechnology, there remain considerable research gaps and a possibility for safe, responsive application of ENMs’ great economic, social and environmental benefits. In the context of the notion of the ‘Green Economy’, the social relationship and economic between the environment and economy can be properly managed. The green nanotechnology concept intends to use nano-innovation in materials science and engineering to support the construction and maintenance of a society to generate energy-efficient products and processes that are environmentally and economically sustainable. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.