Biomedical application of ZnO nanoscale materials

Among various explored nanostructured materials, zinc oxide (ZnO) nanomaterials (NMs), exhibit extraordinary physical and chemical properties and have an advantage among other variety of NMs due to the biocompatibility, cost-effectiveness, and low toxicity. It has emerged out as one of the most researched NMs for variety of applications including biomedical domain in the last few decades. In biomedicine, particularly in antifungal and antibacterial fields, this NM has demonstrated a promising potential in the biological applications. Given the enormous potential of the ZnO NMs, the state-of-the art and most important advances in this field are discussed in this chapter.