Stimuli-Responsive Nanomaterials for Imaging and Therapy
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Biology and Medicines".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 502
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nanomaterials that can respond to chemical, physical, and biological stimuli have demonstrated great potential for imaging and treating diseases. Compared with traditional imaging and therapeutic agents used in medicine, stimuli-responsive nanoagents have the advantage of changing their morphology, structure, composition, size, and charge. The change in nanomaterials further alters their catalytic, optical, electrical, magnetic, acoustic, and mechanical properties, which can provide valuable information for detecting physiological and pathological changes in the body. Moreover, both internal and external stimuli can convert the physical and chemical change in nanomaterials to facilitate the release of drugs or generate reactive chemical species, heat, or vibrations to destroy cancer cells and pathogens. Thus, stimuli-responsive nanomaterials are very promising as next-generation imaging and therapeutic agents.
This Special Issue aims to call for reporting recent advances in stimuli-responsive nanomaterials for imaging and therapy, diagnosis, drug delivery, and the therapy of diseases in various fields, including cancer, infection, tissue engineering, interventional therapy, and so on. Research topics can include the preparation, assembly, surface modification, characterisation, and application of stimuli-responsive nanomaterials in imaging and therapy. Imaging modalities include but are not limited to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), ultrasonography (US), fluorescent imaging (FLI), photoacoustic imaging (PAI), and so on. This Special Issue will cover various stimuli-responsive nanomaterials for drug delivery, chemodynamic therapy, photodynamic therapy, catalytic therapy, photothermal therapy, sonodynamic therapy, sonothermal therapy, etc. We invite the submission of manuscripts on experimental results from clinical, preclinical, animal, and cellular studies but are not limited to them.
Dr. Lihui Yuwen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- stimuli-responsive
- nanomaterials
- imaging
- diagnostics
- therapy
- cancer
- infection
- tissue engineering
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