Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 16513
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nanomedicine; molecular imaging; iron oxide nanoparticles; atherosclerosis
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Interests: nanomedicine; contrast agents; magnetic resonance imaging; positron emission tomography; radionuclides; molecular imaging; bioconjugation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The use of nanoparticles for biomedical applications expands from biosensing to treatment and diagnosis, involving many aspects of the clinical routine. From a more basic point of view, research has focused on new synthetic methods with increased repoducibility and yield. Features like core composition and morphology, coating composition and structure are key to define their physicochemical properties. These properties determine their final use as diagnostic or therapeutic tools. In diagnosis the use of nanoparticles is increasingly important in molecular imaging techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET) or fluorescence imaging. While in therapeutic areas their importance is long known: from liposomes for drug delivery, to iron oxide nanoparticles for hyperthermia or metallic nanoparticles as novel antimicrobials. Finally, for their application in biomedicine, it is necessary to achieve a deep characterisation of their interactions with different biomolecules in vivo, i.e. to study the protein corona that surrounds them once in vivo.
This Special Issue is devoted to any biomedical application where the use of nanoparticles is key, as well as to their synthesis, characterisation, and bioconjugation.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Magnetic nanoparticles as MRI probes (T1 and/or T2)
- Nanoparticles as in vitro sensors
- Hyperthermia
- Nanoparticle-based Molecular imaging
- Nanoparticle-based therapies: oncology, cardiovascular or infectious diseases
- New synthetic methods
- Bioconjugation of nanoparticles for biomedicine
- Protein corona and nanoparticles
Dr. Fernando Herranz
Dr. Juan Pellico
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Magnetic nanoparticles as MRI probes (T1 and/or T2)
- Nanoparticles as in vitro sensors
- Hyperthermia
- Nanoparticle-based Molecular imaging
- Nanoparticle-based therapies: oncology, cardiovascular or infectious diseases
- New synthetic methods
- Bioconjugation of nanoparticles for biomedicine
- Protein corona and nanoparticles
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