Nanoantioxidants
A special issue of Antioxidants (ISSN 2076-3921).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 48793
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nanoantioxidants; methods to measure antioxidant activity; mechanistic aspects of antioxidant activity; computational chemistry; kinetics of radical reactions
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: free radicals; antioxidant activity; natural antioxidants; nano-structured antioxidant materials; nitroxyl radicals; catalysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Feynman quote “There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom” inspired the development of nanotechnology by suggesting that many structures of the macroscopic world could be reproduced at a micro- or even nanoscale. At the same time, the increased ability to manipulate matter at the nanoscale has allowed scientists to develop nano-sized material that could behave as though they mimic natural molecules. The potential of these ideas applied to the field of antioxidant research is clear. Recently, the term “nanoantioxidant” has been created to indicate nano-sized materials having antioxidant activity. This very broad term includes nanomaterials having intrinsic radical trapping ability or SOD – CAT – GPx enzyme-like activities, inert scaffolds covalently linked to small-molecular or macromolecular antioxidants, nanosized crystals of sparingly soluble antioxidants, nanocarriers or hybrid systems. These materials have potentially many advantages but, like all new technologies, they require to be known in detail to avoid pitfalls. With this Special Issue, we aim at increasing the knowledge about nanoantioxidants, and we propose to contributors the following list of research themes. This list is not exhaustive.
1) new materials with antioxidant activity
2) chemical or cell-based methods for measuring the antioxidant activity of nanomaterials
3) chemical studies of mechanisms of radical trapping by nanoantioxidants
4) nanocarriers or nanocapsules for targeted transport and controlled release of antioxidants
5) preparation and activity of antioxidant nanocrystals
6) biological activity and toxicology of nanoantioxidants
Dr. Riccardo Amorati
Dr. Andrea Baschieri
Guest Editors
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