Stimuli-Responsive Materials and Their Biomedical Applications
A special issue of Journal of Functional Biomaterials (ISSN 2079-4983).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 2008
Special Issue Editor
Interests: novel drug delivery systems; pharmaceutical nanotechnology, and multifunctional nanomaterials for controlled drug delivery
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Dear Colleagues,
Stimuli-responsive materials have been widely studied in biomedical applications. They are able to sense one or more environmental “triggers” (e.g., pH, redox, temperature, light, reactive oxygen species, enzyme, glucose, ionic strength, and electric and magnetic fields) to subsequently change their intrinsic physical or chemical properties. Therefore, these stimuli-responsive materials have attracted major attention as smart materials in drug delivery, tissue engineering, biosensing, bioseparation, immobilized biocatalysis, diagnostics, and many other systems.
This Special Issue will host papers related to recent developments in the field of biomedical applications of stimuli-responsive materials. Topics will include but not be limited to microenvironment-responsive materials, field-responsive materials, biologically responsive materials, organic materials, inorganic materials, drug delivery systems, tissue engineering, imaging, and diagnostics. In this regard, I would like to invite authors to contribute research articles and review papers on these topics.
Dr. Lipeng Qiu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- stimuli-responsive materials
- drug delivery
- nanomaterials
- responsive polymers
- tumor treatment
- biomedical engineering
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