Silica Nanoparticles as Promising Theranostic Platform
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 2634
Special Issue Editors
Interests: drug-delivery systems; mesoporous materials; inorganic nanoparticles
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Interests: mesoporous silica nanomaterials; drug delivery systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Research interests in the medical field currently focus on the introduction of nanotechnology into the diagnosis and therapy of patients. The features of mesoporous silica nanoparticles, such as tunable pore size or particle shape and highly versatile surface properties, make them an ideal candidate for the identification and accommodation of biologically relevant molecules, thus assisting in patient diagnosis and treatment therapy.
This Special Issue aims to publish papers regarding the recent advances of mesoporous silica nanoparticles used in biomedical applications, such as drug delivery systems, targeted drug delivery, biomedical imaging, tissue engineering or pharmaceutical formulations based on silica nanoparticles.
Research areas include, but are not limited to, the design of silica nanoparticles or hybrid silica-based systems as nanoplatforms for various biologically active substances for diagnostics and treatment.
We invite you to submit original research, communications or critical review papers within the scope of this Special Issue.
We hope that this Special Issue will be a valuable source of progress in the development of silica-based theranostic platforms.
Prof. Dr. Daniela Berger
Dr. Mihaela Deaconu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mesoporous silica nanoparticles
- functionalized silica nanoparticles
- hybrid nanomaterials
- nanocomposites
- theranostics
- drug delivery systems
- synergic delivery systems
- tissue engineering
- targeted therapy
- biomedical imaging
- stimuli-responsive nanomaterials
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