Application of nanomaterial for optical sensors design

Nanomaterials are considered to be materials whose design construction requires at least one of their dimensions to be comprising of components that are sized within 1 to 100 nanometers. Nanosize can endow nanomaterials with new functions such as new physical, chemical and optical properties that their larger counterparts do not possess. These properties of nanoparticles have thus, become a subject of huge interest as research in them have flourished in the past decades and revealed myriads of new applications that can make this technology indispensable in our lives and in future research. Their various different physical and chemical properties, and their application in some of the most advanced technology-based research of the current decades have been discussed in this research. And also, this research will allow future researchers to exploit the existing gaps in knowledge and research to advance the field further and design newer different applications for the nanomaterials.