Nanotechnological or Innovative Formulation Approaches for Efficient Delivery of Plant Ingredients II
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2024) | Viewed by 5099
Special Issue Editors
Interests: encapsulation; physical chemistry; drug delivery systems; natural product extraction; nanotechnology
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Interests: encapsulation; green extraction; aromatic and medicinal products; agricultural by-products; cyclodextrins
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Natural products have seen an unprecedented increase in both research and commercialization during the last few decades. Secondary and primary metabolites from plants have been isolated and studied for their potential biological efficacy, leading to either new medicines or food supplements/nutraceuticals/herbal medicines. New extraction techniques mainly focusing on “green” extraction have been extensively applied, increasing yields and reducing the use of solvents and overall environmental impact. One aspect of extraction process enhancement is the use of encapsulation matrixes or nanoparticles, such as cyclodextrins, liposomes, micelles etc. Indeed, such approaches have been found useful in the increase of yields and the selective extraction of groups of molecules. The current Special Issue focuses on such approaches—new encapsulation techniques or new applications for metabolite extraction from plants, study of interaction between guest and host molecules, and bioactivity studies on such systems.
Dr. Konstantinos Gardikis
Dr. Ioannis Mourtzinos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nanotechnology
- encapsulation
- extraction
- natural product chemistry
- delivery systems
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