Antimicrobial Nanomaterials: Approaches, Strategies and Applications
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2025 | Viewed by 598
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Interests: nanotechnology; mesoporous silica particles; biomolecules; natural bioactive molecules; controlled release; drug delivery; antimicrobial agents; nanomedicine; food sciences
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Dear Colleagues,
Antimicrobial nanocompounds have the ability to prevent microbial adhesion or kill microorganisms. Recently, many studies have been conducted on the preparation of nanomaterials with antimicrobial properties against diseases caused by pathogens.
This Special Issue of the International Journal of Molecular Science, entitled “Antimicrobial Nanomaterials: Approaches, Strategies and Applications”, aims to collate recent research and review articles focused on the field of antimicrobial nanomaterials as safety nanocarriers for several applications.
Antimicrobial nanomaterials offer great opportunities for safety nanocarriers to be developed in different applications, such as health, medicine, food, agriculture and crop production, energy and environment applications (in air, water, and/or soil) and industry, among others. Various antimicrobial nanomaterials have been extensively explored in terms of developing safety nanocarriers with high sensitivity, selectivity, and simplicity.
The use of materials at the nanodimension scale provides several improvements in terms of analytical features, including sensitivity, rapidity of response, selectivity, and robustness, demonstrating the huge advantage of using nanomaterials in the development of smart and high-performing analytical tools.
By publishing research on the design and development of new antimicrobial nanomaterials and their applications, we aim to bring together stakeholders from different disciplines. Also, the reader of this Special Issue will gain an appreciation for the real role of antimicrobial nanomaterials as safety nanocarriers.
Dr. Andrea Bernardos
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanotechnology
- biocides
- antimicrobials
- controlled release
- drug delivery
- antimicrobial agents
- antimicrobial resistance
- infection
- nanoparticles
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