Functional Nanomaterials for Current and Prospective Medical Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 16552
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, nanomaterials have become more and more important in the field of medicine. They open new possibilities in the detection of early stages of various diseases, in the effective, long-term replacement or regeneration of damaged tissues, and in the development of advanced drug delivery systems allowing precise control over the release profile and the place of delivery of active agents. The possible applications are numerous and include all aspects of diagnosis (biosensors, contrasts, etc.) and therapy (surgical materials, tissue engineering, drug delivery, PDT, gene delivery, etc.). Often enough, functionalization is necessary to precisely adjust the properties of the nanomaterial to the needs of the particular biomedical application, whether it is covalent binding of biologically active moieties, or physical or chemical modifications allowing to provide material with the required polarity, surface charge, shape, or nanostructure.
This Special Issue is dedicated to advances in the field of nanomaterials (nanoparticles and nanocapsules, vesicles, including liposomes, and other nanostructured materials) functionalized in order to tailor their properties with the prospect of the medical application, even if their potential has not yet been fully tested in biological experiments. Studies on all types of nanomaterials (organic, inorganic, hybrid) are welcomed in the form of full papers, communications, and reviews.
Dr. Anna Karewicz
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanoparticles
- nanocapsules
- vesicles
- functional nanomaterials
- nanostructured materials
- biosensors
- bioimaging
- drug delivery
- gene delivery
- tissue engineering
- PDT
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