Escalating urban development and industrial growth have significantly increased the discharge of hazardous pollutants, including organic dyes, heavy metals, and carcinogenic extracts, into global ecosystems. Traditional physical and chemical treatment processes usually have shortcomings as of excessive energy use and partial removal of the pollutants. This literature review discusses nanobiotechnology which is a powerful approach involving the incorporation of nanotechnology with biological activities, and it is seen as an effective way of bioremediating the environment. Different types of nanomaterials are assessed synthetically and in terms of their application in selective degradation and adsorption of industrial effluents as carbon nanotubes, metal oxide nanoparticles, and quantum dots. This work is a systematic synthesis of literature using the latest literature to review how these materials enhance the efficiency of microbial and enzymatic remediation. Moreover, the review deals with vital issues of various aspects of nanomaterial deployment such as scalability, economic feasibility, and toxicology. This work offers a broad review of nanobiotechnology as a sustainable solution to industrial waste management and environmental cleanup by establishing the existing research gaps and evaluating the process of moving the laboratory scale effectiveness to the industrial stages.
Paul et al. (Wed,) studied this question.