Advances in Nanomaterials for Drug Delivery
A special issue of Biomedicines (ISSN 2227-9059). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanomedicine and Nanobiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 35717
Special Issue Editors
Interests: drug delivery systems; magnetic and plasmonic nanoparticles; (magneto)liposomes; bionanomaterials; combined cancer therapy
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Interests: drug delivery systems; biomaterials; nanomaterials; colloids and interfaces; nanomedicine; nanosystems for theranostics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the last several decades, nanomedicine has provided various high-performance tools to overcome biomedical challenges that have resulted in numerous patents. Particularly, drug delivery systems enabled the surpassing of drug stability and solubility limits, improved the routes for drug administration, reduced the dose-associated toxicity, and enhanced the target specificity by exploring both active and passive delivery strategies.
The combination of different nanomaterials has opened paths for the development of smart multifunctional drug delivery systems, for example, the synergistic use of both therapeutic and diagnostic agents (i.e., theranostic agents) in a single drug carrier. These advancements have enabled the spatial and temporal manipulation of drug delivery systems and thus on-demand drug release upon an external stimulus. This control over drug release remains a major challenge, moving towards multimodal and multifunctional strategies as a means to optimize efficiency and efficacy.
This Special Issue aims to attract the academic and scientific communities within this biomedical field to contribute their developments in drug delivery systems based on nanomaterials. Original research articles and reviews are welcome, including those providing a fundamental understanding of the principles, fabrication, and application of traditional or innovative systems that demonstrate an advantage over current clinical formulations. The systems can include (but are not limited to) biomaterials, carbonaceous materials, as well as magnetic and/or plasmonic materials
Dr. Elisabete M. S. Castanheira
Dr. Sérgio R. S. Veloso
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- drug delivery systems
- on-demand delivery
- target therapy
- theranostic
- nanomedicine
- nanoparticles
- nanomaterials
- biomaterials
- multifunctional materials
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