Smart Nanomaterials: Molecular Design for Advanced Medicine
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomaterials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 June 2022) | Viewed by 5024
Special Issue Editors
Interests: photocatalysis; nanomaterials synthesis; structure–function relationships; thermo-analytical methodologies; hybrid materials design
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Interests: nanomaterials synthesis; hybrid materials design, bioinspired multifunctional systems; surface functionalization of nanostructured materials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The marriage between nanotechnology and biomaterials science promises to revolutionize medical practice. Actually, nanomaterials, featuring superior size-tunable properties, high intrinsic reactivity, and sizes comparable with those of functional moieties in biology can establish strong interactions with biological systems, thus triggering key biological events and ultimately driving cells fate. Materials design at the nanoscale allows fine tuning of their physical-chemical properties, providing unique tools for scientists to unveil biochemical pathways and set up more personalized treatment with enhanced therapeutic efficacy.
This Special Issue aims to collect theoretical, experimental, and review contributions to show the most recent advances in nanomaterials in medicine as well as the challenges and opportunities provided by the materials design at the nanoscale in the field of biomedical devices.
We commit to providing contributions from leading research groups and from the multidisciplinary community of chemists, physicists, biologists, material scientists and engineers, focusing on molecular design of nanomaterials especially, but not exclusively, in the following areas:
- Antimicrobial devices
- Regenerative Medicine
- Diagnosis and therapy
- New Imaging Devices
- Drug-Delivery
- Tissue Engineering
- Environmental and toxicity concern
Prof. Dr. Giuseppina Luciani
Prof. Dr. Brigida Silvestri
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Nanomaterials design and processing
- Processing-structure-property relationships
- Surface functionalization of nanostructured materials Tissue Engineering
- Smart Drug-Delivery
- Imaging
- Regenerative medicine
- Nanotoxicity
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