Nanomaterials for Health-Care, Environmental Monitoring and Food Quality Control
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 2340
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biosensor; lab-on-chip; point-of-care devices; biomedical diagnostics and agri-food safety
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Dear Colleagues,
The emergence of nanotechnology has led to the development of novel nanomaterials: natural or manufactured objects with at least one of the three dimensions at the nanoscale. The advances in new strategies for synthesizing nanomaterials together with tools for their characterization led to a vast academic and industrial interests due to the possible applications of these materials in the development of new products, devices, and technologies.
Nanomaterials including micelles, liposomes, solid lipid nanoparticles, inorganic (metal) nanoparticles, quantum dots, polymeric nanoparticles, mesoporous silica nanoparticles, dendrimers, nanotubes-nanowires, graphene surfaces, and thin films have been demonstrated to have physical, chemical, and biological properties which differ from those of single atoms of bulk solid matter. Nanomaterials are characterized by the unique combination of small size and immense surface area, which is reflected in their mechanical, magnetic, optical, and catalytic properties, thereby permitting new levels of performances and applications in biosensing, diagnostics, therapeutics, drug delivery, medicine, biomedical imaging, water purification, environmental monitoring, and food quality control.
The aim of this Special Issue is to show to researchers and scientists the new achievements in the synthesis, characterization, and applications of nanomaterials in health-care and bioanalytical science, such as environmental monitoring and food quality control. We encourage the submission of reviews, mini-reviews, original articles, and short communications displaying the potential of nanomaterials in health-care and analytical settings, also using “real world” samples.
Dr. Francesca Costantini
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanomaterials
- synthesis
- characterization
- health-care
- biosensing
- environmental monitoring
- food quality control
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