Nanomaterials for Photothermal Therapy and Antibacterial Applications
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Biology and Medicines".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 May 2022) | Viewed by 4645
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cancer and bacterial infectious disease have attracted considerable public attention due to their great threat to human health. In recent years, photothermal therapy (PTT) has been the object of growing interest, has undergone technological advances, and has been recognized as a non-invasive method to kill cancer cells and pathogenic bacteria. PTT requires the use of nanomaterials (e.g., gold nanoparticles, carbon nanomaterials, iron oxide nanoparticles, etc.) that exhibit high absorption in the near-infrared (NIR) region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The benefits of using nanomaterials is that the NIR light can be absorbed and rapidly converted into heat, thus increasing the surrounding temperature of the irradiated organisms.
We are launching a Special Issue of Nanomaterials entitled “Nanomaterials for Photothermal Therapy and Antibacterial Applications”. This Special Issue aims to cover different strategies against cancer and bacteria, improving the effect of phototherapy. We are particularly interested in the design of nanomaterials, and in the effects of their physico-chemical properties on their photothermal therapeutic efficiency in treating cancers and bacterial infections. We invite investigators to contribute review and original research papers reporting recent efforts in the field of nanomaterial-based photothermal therapies and antibacterial applications.
Dr. Chia-Hua Lin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Nanomaterials
- Photothermal therapy
- Antibacterial
- Anticancer
- Nanotherapeutics
