The University of Basrah organizes a seminar titled ((Manufacture of zinc oxide nanoparticles and iron oxide nanoparticles and their uses in controlling flies. Musca domestica L.) unit at the College of Science

The College of Science at the University of Basra organized a seminar on ((Manufacture of zinc oxide nanoparticles and iron oxide nanoparticles and their uses in controlling flies. Musca domestica L.) for graduate student (Master’s) Mawahib Jassim Abdel Zahra.

The study aims to manufacture nanoparticles using plant extracts, and use them to control disease-carrying insects.

The study included an introduction to nanotechnology and nanoparticles and addressed various manufacturing methods, with the most important (environmentally friendly methods) or (green methods) and nanoparticle characterization.

The study also implied the plant extracts' preparation for nanoparticle synthesis and detection of their active compounds.  Finally, the study indicated the possibility of testing the effectiveness of nanoparticles in controlling disease-carrying insects.

The study recommended testing the effectiveness of other types of nanoparticles on the same stages of the house fly used in this study to evaluate their effectiveness and using other types of plants containing zinc oxide and iron oxide nanoparticles and evaluating their effectiveness on the life stages of the house fly and evaluating the toxicity of the manufactured nanoparticles to humans and confirming their non-toxicity by applying them to one or two cell lines and also using a mixture of nanoparticles with active compounds extracted from plant extracts to verify the synergistic effectiveness between nanoparticles and active compounds and compare the results.