Nano-and Micromotors for Biomedical Applications
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "B：Biology and Biomedicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 233
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With recent developments in the field of self-powered nano-and micromotors based artificial systems, many researchers are focusing on their biomedical application for active and targeted delivery. In the past decade, nano/micromotors have been proven to be a potential tool for addressing complicated in vivo problems, such as drug delivery, cell sensing, imaging, wound healing, and tissue uptake. Despite great progress in this field, we are still far from using nano/micromotors for in vivo tasks due to the bottlenecks such as systemic toxicity, their inability to move in biological fluids, the size and the poor biocompatibility of both materials used for fabrication and the fuels used for active motion. Accordingly, this Special Issue seeks to showcase research papers, short communications, and review articles that focus on nano-and micromotors for biomedical applications including but not limited to the following: 1) Novel designs and the influence of size, shape, and geometry, 2) fabrication of biocompatible and biodegradable components of the artificial systems, 3) exploring fuels present under physiologically relevant conditions, 4) understanding the propulsion mechanism and engineering them for enhanced stability in the bodily fluids, 5) investigating the bioavailability, retention, toxicity, and therapeutic efficacy of artificial systems and their tracking in real-world clinical applications for in vivo biomedical applications.
Dr. Motilal Mathesh
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Nano/micromotors
- biomedical applications
- biocatalyst
- enzyme catalysis
- biocompatibility
- fuels
- biodegradability
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