Nanomaterials for Theranostics and Tissue Engineering Applications
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 October 2022) | Viewed by 11850
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Interests: regenerative medicine; tissue engineering; nanomedicine; biotechnology; biomaterials; stem cells
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, nanomaterials are emerging as promising agents for both therapeutic and diagnostic (theranostic) applications, and also for their possible use in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Research efforts are moving towards the exploration of new materials that can foster the clinical translation of biotechnological approaches aimed at non-invasive imaging, biomarker development and drug targeting. Many types of nanomaterials, including nanoparticles, quantum dots and nanostructures, have shown both diagnostic and therapeutic potential that strongly depend on size control and surface modification. These aspects can influence biocompatibility and interactions with biological systems. A key element for research on theranostic agents in the near future is the need to improve disease detection and therapeutic efficacy.
This Special Issue on “Nanomaterials for Theranostics and tissue Engineering Applications” welcomes original research and reviews in nanomedicine and nanotechnology field, with a focus on all aspects of design, characterization, evaluation, and development of novel nanomaterial and nanotechnology for medicine applications and the challenges of their use, both from a diagnostic and a therapeutic point of view.
We would like to focus on the following concepts:
- Study, design, characterization and development of biosensors and theragnostic platforms based on advanced nanostructured systems.
- New intelligent biomaterials and nano-structured devices, functionalized metal nanoparticles and polymeric devices for imaging, tissue engineering, organ on chip, stem cell therapy and drug delivery;
Acoustic, optical and electrical nano-biosensors and advanced microfluidic devices and lab-on-chip for bioanalytics, diagnostics, drug testing and drug discovery
Dr. Mario Ledda
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanomaterial
- nanotechnology
- intelligent biomaterials
- drug testing
- drug discovery
- drug delivery
- theragnostic platforms
- biosensing
- tissue engineering
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