Recent Advances in Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomaterials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2025 | Viewed by 16
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Interests: nanotechnology; self-assembly; DNA; AFM; drug delivery; biosensors; molecular electronics; batteries
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Dear Colleagues,
Biomedical applications of nanomaterials are extremely versatile. New ideas, breakthrough results and novel technological developments are appearing on a near-daily basis. Functionalized metal nanoparticles, polymer nanoaggregates, liposomes and carbon-based nanomaterials find ever increasing applications in drug and gene delivery. Such nanomaterials possess advantages of controlled release, targeted delivery, co-delivery of several therapeutic or protective agents for combination therapies, improved treatment efficacy and reduced side effects. Furthermore, the plasmonic, fluorescent and magnetic properties of nanomaterials can be used to enhance imaging of cells, tissues and organs. On the other hand, the same properties can be used to achieve enhanced and localized photothermal and photodynamic therapies or magnetic hyperthermia. Nanomaterials also provide important advantages in the field of tissue engineering. They allow us to extend the functionality of scaffolds by modifying their mechanical and electrical properties, creating anisotropy and releasing single molecules and drugs in response to a change in environmental conditions. The toolbox of nanomaterials in biomedicine keeps expanding, with recent additions of electrospun nanofibers, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), DNA origami and DNA robots, carbon quantum dots and MXenes being just a few of the many recently emerging technologies that can be used alongside the already established applications of nanomaterials. We invite researchers to report on different aspects of this truly multidisciplinary field and contribute their findings to this Special Issue.
Dr. Leonid Gurevich
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanomaterials
- nanoparticles
- nanocomposites
- drug delivery
- gene delivery
- tissue engineering
- responsive scaffolds
- electrospun scaffolds and fibers
- micro- and nanogels
- DNA origami
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