Polymeric Materials in Drug Delivery Systems
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 April 2023) | Viewed by 7004
Special Issue Editors
Interests: surface modification; smart materials; drug delivery; biomaterials; polymers; liposomes
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Interests: polymers; biomaterials; drug delivery; tissue engineering
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Formulations that control the rate and period of drug delivery (i.e., time-release medications) and target specific areas of the body for treatment have become increasingly common and complex. Over the past few decades, drug delivery has remarkably advanced and is clearly moving from the micro- to the nanoscale, and polymers play an important role here. Drug delivery systems aim to carry therapeutic substances to targeted parts of the body, without reaching nontarget cells, organs, or tissues and at the same time control the therapy administration by means of either a physiological or chemical trigger. Over the years, polymeric micro/nanospheres, polymer micelles, biodegradable polymers, dendrimers, nanoparticles, liposomes, and hydrogel-based materials have all been shown to be effective in enhancing drug-targeting specificity, lowering systemic drug toxicity, improving treatment absorption rates, and providing protection for pharmaceuticals against biochemical degradation.
Within this topic, we are pleased to invite you to contribute with a full article, short communication, or review article to this Special Issue entitled “Polymeric Materials in Drug Delivery Systems”.
Dr. Patrícia Alves
Dr. Paula Ferreira
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- drug delivery
- therapeutic agents
- responsive polymers
- hydrogels
- tissue engineering
- polymeric materials
- biomaterials
- nanoparticles
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