Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery and Biosensing Applications
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 December 2019) | Viewed by 7168
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nanomedicine; drug delivery; nano-biointeractions; biomaterials; targeted drug delivery
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Dear Colleagues,
The growing interest in nanotechnology-based applications in medicine is attributed to their uniquely appealing features for drug delivery, imaging, tissue engineering, and medical device development. Several nanotechnology-based therapeutic platforms are either in clinic or under clinical investigation. These platforms have several benefits such as targeted delivery, controlled drug release, ability to encapsulate a wide variety of therapeutic agents, and multi-drug delivery. Recent advances in biomaterials design and synthesis, coupled with a better understanding of nano-bio interactions, enabled the development of more sophisticated platforms. They include, but are not limited to, stimuli response, supramolecular host-guest, redox sensitive, drug delivery sensors, on-demand drug delivery, and guided drug delivery; and their applications range from cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and inflammation, to neurodegenerative diseases.
The main goal of this Special Issue is to capture the current state-of-the-art and contemporary progress in a variety of nano-biomaterials and nanomedicines development and their different disease applications. Suggested drug-delivery topics are smart platforms, redox active, stimuli-responsive, supramolecular, targeted drug delivery, drug-delivery sensors, and imaging-guided therapeutic platforms. Both research papers and review articles will be considered. If you are interested in contributing to this Special Issue, I would very much appreciate receiving the tentative title of your contribution.
Prof. Suresh Gadde
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- drug delivery
- smart materials
- stimuli responsive drug delivery
- supramolecular biomaterials
- nanomedicine
- multi-functional materials
- controlled release
- sensors-based drug-delivery
- on-demand drug-delivery
- biosensors drug delivery
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