Paper Details

Name: Dixit Karan Shankar
Email: karansdixit@gmail.com
Country: India

Year: 2023
Volume: Volume-10, Issue-2, (July-December)
Page Number: 40-46
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10677348

For plants to absorb nutrients, fertilizers with specific chemical composition and higher analytical value are utilized. A fertilizer can contain any combination of nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, and other necessary elements. The components must be easily accessible to plants, water-soluble, stable for long-term use, and affordable. It should also maintain the soil pH between 7 and 8 and be non-toxic to plants. Solids can exist in two forms amorphous and crystalline and are composed of tiny particles that aggregate to form larger granules. When these particles are smaller than 100 nm in size, they are referred to as nanomaterials. Nanomaterials have unique properties that differ from bulk materials due to their large surface area. They have been studied for their potential applications in fields such as agriculture ,catalysis, sensing devices, semiconductors, and medicines .
Nano-fertilizers are nanoscale materials, commonly in the form of nanoparticles, that contain macro and micronutrients and are delivered to crops in a regulated manner. Based on its formulation, nano-fertilizers are classified into three types: Nanoscale fertilizer is comparable to conventional fertilizer but smaller in size.Nanoparticles are often utilized. A nano supplemental fertilizer is a regular fertilizer that contains nanomaterials. Nanoscale coating fertilizer is nutrient-encased by nanofilms in nanoscale pores on a host material. Nanocomposite frameworks for controlling nutrition distribution have been created using nutrients enclosed by films or embedded in tiny holes inside a carrier material such as ceramics. A nanoscale regime product that distributes nourishment to crops.