Nanochemistry is a specialty that derives from nanotechnology and that is responsible for the study of groups of molecules or atoms at a level where interactions are taken into account individually and where quantum results can be significant, allowing the formation of new chemical reactions.
It is important to highlight the fact that science during this last century has been transformed due to numerous investigations associated with nanotechnology and nanoscience, all this has allowed the emergence of specialties such as nanochemistry, which shows how materials are built through of particles of everything that exists in the environment, that is to say, it refers to a construction atom by atom.
This branch of nanotechnology is in charge of investigating the structure, synthesis, characterization and production of various nanomaterials and their compounds, on a nanometric scale.
Nanochemistry represents a field of vital importance for nanotechnology, since most of the processes and simplification of new materials begin, starting with atoms. Many of the molecules and nanoparticles of different elements tend to present unusual chemical reactions with unusual properties. These are the phenomena to which nanochemistry focuses its research.
The creator of this extraordinary science is the chemist Geoffrey Ozin, who is listed as the father of nanochemistry, since through the publication of several articles related to the subject, he proposed that the fundamentals of chemistry could very well be applied to the synthesis of materials "from the bottom up" over any degree of length, through the principles of the elaboration of hierarchical blocks. This consists of using a building block at a nano / molecular degree, raised with chemical data that will self-assemble them in a natural and supervised way, in structures that comprise a wide range of length scales.
Nanochemistry has various applications, especially in the industrial and health areas.
In the industrial area are nanopolymers. These are responsible for the nano coating of the materials in order to preserve or clean the surfaces, in such a way that the characteristics of the materials can be protected against the severity of time, microorganisms, dirt, etc.
Nanosponges are nano-sized sponges that have the ability to suck up lethal toxins, like those of some spiders and snakes.
In the medical field, the most important application of nanochemistry is in the manufacture of nanodiamonds to treat cancer cases
