Nanotechnology has the potential to provide healthier, safer, and better tasting foods as well as improved food packaging. It will also play a major role in food safety and agricultural sustainability. Nanotechnology application in the food industry has also contributed to the exponential progress in research and new material formulations due to its unique physicochemical properties useful to a number of other fields.
Lohith Kumar Dasarahally-Huligowda, MTech, is currently perusing a PhD degree in Bioprocess Engineering at the Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India.
Megh R. Goyal, PhD, PE, is a Retired Professor in Agricultural and Biomedical Engineering from the General Engineering Department in the College of Engineering at University of Puerto Rico–Mayaguez Campus; and Senior Acquisitions Editor and Senior Technical Editor-in-Chief in Agriculture and Biomedical Engineering for Apple Academic Press Inc.
Hafiz Ansar Rasul Suleria, PhD, is currently working as Honorary Fellow in the Diamantina Institute, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Australia.