Nanoconstructs Based on Cyclodextrins, Volume II

Dear Colleagues,

Cyclodextrin nanoconstructs (CDnc) have recently aroused the interest of the scientific community thanks to a plethora of potential applications. This issue will be focused on nanoconstructs based on native or modified CDs leading to novel polymeric, amphiphilic, metal, and hybrid backbones in material science. These nanoplatforms have the ability to covalently conjugate active moieties and complex guests through supramolecular interactions or physical entrapment. In this scenario, five research themes are here envisaged:

• CDnc for drug delivery and nanomedicine (including nanomaterials for pharmaceutics, theranostic, and scaffolds displaying nanodomains for regenerative medicine);
• CDnc in food manufacturing;
• CDnc in green chemistry and environmental sustainability (together with novel systems built in a nanoscale range for catalysis or remediation systems and conservation of cultural heritage);
• Toxicological studies and CDnc/cell interactions;
• CDnc in renewable energy processes.

Articles will include the synthesis of novel functionalized CDs and the formation of nanoassemblies with potential applications in i-v themes or novel and significant applications in i-v of known CDnc. Mini-reviews on the abovementioned research subjects and those not recently documented (at least in the last five years) are also welcome.

Prof. Dr. Antonino Mazzaglia
Prof. Dr. Cinzia Anna Ventura
Prof. Dr. Géraldine Gouhier
Guest Editors

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• cyclodextrins
• self-assembly
• hydrogels
• drug delivery
• nanosponges
• regenerative medicine
• theranostic
• nutraceutics
• stimuli-responsive materials
• green chemistry
• cyclodextrin nanoconstructs/cell interactions
• toxicology of cyclodextrin nanomaterials
• gene delivery
• remediation and recycling