Research on Application of Nanomaterials in Drug Delivery
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 3255
Special Issue Editors
Interests: lipid nanoparticles; drug delivery and targeting; nanotoxicology and nanosafety; pharmaceutical chemistry; cosmetics; nanomedicine; clinical trials
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2. NANOMED-Research Centre on Nanomedicine and Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Interests: drug delivery; nanomedicine; nutraceuticals; pharmaceutical technology; natural compounds
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the past decades, the demand for nanotechnology has been increasing, and the application of nanomaterials has become more and more extensive. Nanomaterials have been applied in biomedical as drug delivery, tissue engineering, and diagnostics for disease. In particular, the application of nanotechnology for drug delivery offers the advantage of a promising potential strategy for enhanced treatments with targeted delivery and fewer side effects. Nanotechnology drug delivery applications occur through the use of designed nanomaterials and forming delivery systems in the nanoscale range including both vesicles, such as liposomes, and particles of different nature, namely polymeric, lipid, hybrid, or organic.
Nanomaterials’ application in drug delivery systems can provide different advantages, such as drug protection, improving drug bioavailability, modifying drug distribution with targeting activity, and controlling drug release concerning the specific different routes or treatment disease (ophthalmic administration, cancer treatment, brain diseases or more specific disease such as coronary artery disease).
Therefore, the purpose of this research topic is to collect original research articles and review papers that present an overview of current trends and applications of different nanomaterials (polymers, lipids, surfactants, active drugs) by investigating their effect on the final characteristics of the nano-drug delivery system. Particular attention will be paid to the safety of raw nanomaterials and the developed nanosystem, discussed about the target site and application in human medicine.
Dr. Aleksandra Zielinska
Prof. Dr. Claudia Carbone
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nanomaterials
- nanoparticles
- vesicles
- drug delivery
- tissue engineering
- human medicine
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