Advanced Multifunctional Anticancer Nanomaterials

Dear Colleagues,

As the second leading cause of cancer, there has been a significant demand of new therapeutics to treat this disease. Using biomaterials, including hydrogels, and polymeric nanoparticles, a large extent of investigations have been supplied to satisfy that demand. Usually, these biomaterials encapsulate therapeutic agents, such as anticancer drugs, protein, cytokines, and genes and then subsequently release these agents into the tumor microenvironment, including tumor vessels and tumor tissues. In the case of metal encapsulated biomaterials, they are utilized as a photothermal therapy for cancer treatment. Other advantages of biomaterials for cancer treatment include environmental sensitivity, such as pH, temperature, light, enzyme, which enable them to be smart that can release the encapsulating agents to the specific targeting sites upon the external stimulus.

This Special Issue will present a tight focus on ongoing research in innovative designs for cancer therapy using biomaterials. We invite investigators to contribute original research, as well as review articles, that seek to address these novel ideas. A specific interest will be placed on papers investigating or deliberating new mechanistic ideas that enhance payload encapsulation, improve systemic circulation and tumor targeting specificity, and release payload only in the tumor microenvironment.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• New synthetic biomaterials for cancer treatment
• New method of payload encapsulation by biomaterials
• Investigation of payload release mechanism
• Enhancement of Biodistribution
• Biomaterials mediated immunotherapy for cancer
• Combinatory of cancer treatment by biomaterials

Prof. Dongin Kim
Dr. Jung Seok Lee
Guest Editors

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• Biomaterials
• hydrogels
• nanoparticles
• cancer therapy