Opportunities for Nanomaterials to Address the Challenges of COVID‐19
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2023) | Viewed by 3429
Special Issue Editors
Interests: innate immunity; Inflammation; nanosafety; monocytes/macrophages
Interests: biophotonics; Raman spectroscopy; SERS; imaging; plasmonics; optical biosensors; nanotechnology; nanophotonics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
You are cordially invited to submit an original research manuscript to this Special Issue of Materials, entitled “Opportunities for Nanomaterials to Address the Challenges of COVID‐19”.
This Special Issue aims to investigate the role of nanomaterials in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of viral diseases including COVID-19.
We invite scientists to contribute original research articles and literature reviews that provide insights into nano-based formulations that can improve the target delivery and therapeutic efficacy of antiviral drugs. Moreover, we are particularly interested in contributions on nano-based biosensors that can be used in diagnostics for viral infections with high specificity and sensitivity, and the new generation of vaccines based on different types of nanomaterials, with improved antigen stability, target delivery and controlled-release. Finally, the use of nanoparticle-based markers can be proposed to enable the study of the mechanism by which viruses infect host cells.
Potential topics of this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Nanomaterials for target delivery of antiviral drugs;
- Nano-Carriers and nano-drug delivery systems with potential to control viral infection;
- Nanosensors for virus detection and disease diagnosis;
- Nanomaterials for viral vaccines;
- Nanoparticles design for virus inhibition;
- Nanoparticles for the study of the mechanisms by which viruses infect host cells.
Dr. Paola Italiani
Dr. Anna Chiara De Luca
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nanomaterials for target delivery
- nanosensors
- drug delivery
- nanomaterials for vaccines
- nanoparticles for virus inhibition
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