Special Issue "Macromolecules Applied to Pharmaceutics"

Guest Editor
Prof. Tommasina Coviello
Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Drug Chemistry and Technologies, "Sapienza" University of Rome, P.le A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
Website: http://ctf.frm.uniroma1.it/cgi-bin/campusnet/docenti.pl/Show?_id=coviello
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Summary

This special issue, “Macromolecules applied to Pharmaceutics” is devoted to a peculiar branch of polymer science that is rapidly growing in the last decades.
It is of interest, therefore, to publish both reviews and original research papers to illustrate the general trend in current research.
Polymers can act, in different ways, as carriers for drug delivery and as peculiar therapeutic agents to be delivered. In the past few decades macromolecules have evolved from off-the-shelf materials originally developed for applications unrelated to biomedicine to materials specifically designed for particular applications and exhibiting intended biomedical functions. The design of new polymeric devices requires the combination of knowledge among scientist from different fields such biology, medicine, pharmaceutical sciences, chemistry, physics and materials science.
In that sense I wish to thank all the authors for their cooperation and support in the preparation of the present issue.

Submission

All papers should be submitted to molecules@mdpi.org with copy to the guest editor. To be published continuously until the deadline and papers will be listed together at the special websites.

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Instructions for Authors page. Molecules is an international peer-reviewed quarterly journal published by Molecular Diversity Preservation International.

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Synthetic and natural polymers for drug/gene delivery and/or medical devices; New aspects of macromolecule uses in the dosage form design; Characterization of polymers used in the pharmaceutics field; Biomaterials; Macromolecular pro-drugs; Delivery of macromolecular drugs; Hydrogel delivery systems; Micro- and Nano-technological approaches for the delivery of macromolecules; Pharmaceutical applications of dendrimers; Polymeric nanocarriers for drug delivery; Polymer-drug conjugates for drug targeting; Stimuli-responsive polymeric systems for biomedical applications; Polymeric scaffolds for tissue engineering.