Magnetic Nanoparticles 2020
A special issue of Magnetochemistry (ISSN 2312-7481). This special issue belongs to the section "Magnetic Nanospecies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2021) | Viewed by 49746
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nanotechnology; controlled drug delivery; magnetic nanoparticles; cancer therapy; biomaterials; tissue engineering
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Dear Colleagues,
The focus of this Special Issue involves the preparation, characterization, and applications of magnetic nanoparticles, with different geometries and functionalities, applied in biomedicine as a drug carrier, diagnosis imaging, tissue engineering, cell labelling, hyperthermia, magneto-rheological fluids, theranostic, micro- and nanochips, gene therapy, etc. Magnetic nanoparticles are potentially useful in biomedicine thanks to their response to magnetic fields. It allows local treatment in a specific site (target therapy), can be used to load and deliver sequentially different drugs combination (drug carriers) and can be easily functionalized to be biocompatible and nontoxic. Interest in magnetic nanoparticles, from its synthesis and surface functionalization strategies, and its stability in biological fluids, to the uptake by stem cells and the therapeutic efficiency has increased recently and multiple directions are ongoing in this research field.
In this context, this Special Issue on Magnetic Nanoparticles 2020 aims at publishing a collection of research contributions that illustrates recent achievements in all these aspects of development applied in the biomedical field. The suggested (but not unique) topics are listed below:
- Synthesis and characterization of magnetic nanoparticles. Morphologies, composition and size influence;
- Functionalization of magnetic nanoparticles:
- Type of material: Organic, inorganic, sol–gel functionalization, etc.;
- Methodology: emulsion polymerizations, crosslinking, physical recover (electrostatic, Van der Waals, hydrogen bonds);
- Magnetic properties after functionalization;
- Behavior in biological fluids;
- Applications:
- Drug and gene delivery;
- Cancer theranostics;
- Diagnosis, magnetic resonance imaging;
- Hyperthermia;
- Magneto-rheological fluids;
- Target therapies;
- Cell labeling;
- Micro- and nanomedical devices;
- Others.
Prof. Dr. Felisa Reyes-Ortega
Guest Editor
Keywords
- magnetic nanoparticles
- magnetic resonance imaging
- diagnosis
- magnetic hyperthermia
- drug and gene deliver
- biocompatible materials
- medical devices