Hybrid and Polymer Assemblies
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "D:Materials and Processing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 22912
Special Issue Editors
Interests: drug delivery; gene delivery; liposomes; nanoparticles; functional materials; molecular diffusion; mass and heat transport simulation; cell sygnalling; cell death
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Interests: polymer self-assembly; encapsulation and release of bioactive molecules; microfluidics; raman microscopy; hard and soft templating; polymer scaffolds; cell-surface engineering; 2D and 3D cell culture
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The past decades have witnessed a significant rise of the interest to nanoscale and microstructured materials and systems that have rapidly found their applications in pharmacy and medicine (drug delivery, sensing, tissue engineering, scaffolds) as well as in industry (packaging, semiconductors, energy storage). This surge of research largely became possible due to recent advances in nano- and micro-fabrication technologies that allowed tailored engineering of novel materials with finely tuned structure, morphology and functionality. These technologies include but not limited to microfluidics, 3D printing, the layer-by-layer and the Langmuir–Blodgett deposition, surface patterning, hard and soft templating. These powerful methodologies have a common feature – they allow the assembly of molecules, molecular complexes and/or nanoparticles in a confined space forming 2D and 3D structures with a precisely controlled architecture. Although this space-constrained assembly has already shown its potential, the fundamental aspects of the assembly and the applications should be better understood and further bridged together to gain an impact from the fundamental research in the nearest future.
This Special Issue highlights contributions (research papers, short communications, review articles and perspectives) that focus on recent developments in design, nano- and micro-engineering and characterisation of polymer-based and hybrid structures that introduce new insights on fundamental understanding of the assembly phenomenon and/or open new avenues for challenging application. Particular attention will be given to:
- Microfluidic-assisted assembly
- Design of polymer-based and hybrid devices and films
- Self-assembled structures
- Mechanism of polymer/hybrid assembly
- Colloidal particles, polymer gels and multilayers
- Core–shell structures
- Molecular crowding and cell mimics
- Hybrid polymer assemblies with lipids and nanoparticles
Contributions related to new technologies and material aspects of the assembly in confined space in both 2D and 3D are very welcome.
Dr. Anna Vikulina
Prof. Dmitry Volodkin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Hybrid materials;
- Self-assembly;
- Core–shell;
- Templating;
- Coating;
- Polymers;
- Lipids;
- Nanoparticles
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