Nanofibers and Nanoparticles from Marine Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering, Drug Delivery and Other Biomedical Applications
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2022) | Viewed by 6892
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biomedical applications; electrospinning; nanofibers; hybrid materials; marine biopolymers
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Interests: isolation; structure elucidation; marine natural products; marine biopolymers; marine-derived microorganisms
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Interests: bone tissue engineering; pest management; biological materials; medical materials; nanofibers
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nanotechnology represents an emerging technological field in medicine and biomedical engineering. Nanostructured particulate and fibrous systems are attracting constantly increasing attention for the development of novel biomedical systems in tissue-engineering and drug-delivery applications. Various natural and synthetic polymers can be engineered in functionalized and modified hybrid nanostructures with the desired and necessary properties for targeted bioapplications.
Marine biopolymers are considered abundant, cost-efficient, and non-toxic materials, representing a rapidly growing sector of materials in the biomedical field, due to their high biocompatibility and biodegradability, and inherent biological properties.
This Special Issue aims to include original research articles and reviews on the design, development, and detailed characterization of marine-based nanostructured biomaterials with the potential for utilization in various biomedical applications as drug-release modifiers, bioadhesives, cell scaffolds, coatings, wound-dressing materials and tissue-engineering scaffolds.
Prof. Dr. Vassilios Roussis
Dr. Efstathia Ioannou
Dr. Stefanos Kikionis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- marine biomaterials
- marine biopolymers
- marine polysaccharides
- nanoparticles
- nanofibers
- biomedical applications
- drug delivery
- tissue engineering
- cell scaffolds
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