Advanced Delivery Systems for Therapeutic and Agro-Chemical Applications
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 15
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nanomaterials; drug delivery
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Dear Colleagues,
With the escalating challenges of drug resistance in healthcare and pesticide overuse in agriculture, advanced delivery systems bridging medical and agrochemical domains have become imperative. Conventional approaches such as oral tablets in medicine or spray formulations in crop protection face critical limitations including off-target toxicity, environmental persistence, and low bioavailability. To address these dual-sector demands, innovative micro- to nano-scale carriers (e.g., hydrogel microparticles, nanocapsules, biodegradable polymers) are revolutionizing precision delivery. These engineered platforms enable spatiotemporal control through pH-, redox-, or enzyme-triggered release, enhance biocompatibility and environmental safety, facilitate the co-delivery of hydrophilic/hydrophobic agents (e.g., antibiotics combined with fungicides), and improve penetration across biological barriers like the blood-brain barrier or plant cuticle.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Microparticles, nanoemulsions, and macro-hydrogels carriers;
- Responsive drug- and agro-delivery systems;
- Biomimetic strategies for the design of drug- and agro-delivery systems;
- Fundamental studies on interactions between drug- and agro-delivery delivery systems and nanomedicines/nanopesticide with biological/plant/pest systems in vitro and in vivo;
- Toxicology and safety of drug delivery systems.
Dr. Wenjing Ma
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- micro- and nano-carriers
- responsive
- toxicology
- safety
- drug delivery
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