**1. Introduction**

Nanotechnology has emerged as one of the most versatile and powerful technologies in the development of drug delivery techniques. Nanomaterials include particulates which have at least one dimension of 100 nm or less. Scale di fferences and modification to the material surfaces result in di fferent physico-chemical properties of the materials which make them suitable for biomedical applications such as drug delivery, disease diagnosis, and therapy. Currently, there are many applications of nanotechnology in general and nanoparticle (NP)-based drug delivery specifically. Similarly, membrane technologies that focus on both nanoporous membrane preparation and applications have developed significantly. In this context, a membrane involves a porous system which is made up of either inorganic, organic, or a combination of both inorganic and organic materials. The utilization of membranes to convey medications/bioactives is opening up new treatment preferences of interest, e.g., enhancing the solubility of bioactives shielding an active ingredient from corruption, enhancing the bioavailability of medication, lowering lethal impacts, o ffering suitable structures for all courses of administration, permitting advancement and o ffering fitting structures for courses of drug administration, and permitting fast formulation improvement. These points are discussed further below.
