Advanced Nanotherapeutics: Design, Synthesis and Applications—2nd Edition
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2025 | Viewed by 25
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Interests: drug resistance; antimicrobial agent development; drug delivery; antimicrobial peptides and polymers; liposomes; extracellular vesicles; biofilms; biophysics
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Interests: polyurea dendrimers; synthetic mimics of antimicrobial peptides; nanotherapeutics; cancer theranostics; cancer radiotheranostics; regenerative nanomedicine; green chemistry; mechanochemistry; sonochemistry; non-traditional intrinsic luminescence
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, nanotechnology has had a tremendous impact in the development of novel therapeutic strategies. In this context, nanomedicine is now an exponentially growing research field. Emerging at the nexus between medicine and nanotechnology, nanomedicine aims at the comprehensive monitoring, control, construction, repair, defence, and improvement of all human biological systems, using engineered nanodevices and new nanomaterials. An important feature shared among nanoparticles is their high surface-to-volume ratio, making them suitable drug nanocarriers. Moreover, the effectiveness of a therapy relies in the targeted release of the therapeutic agent at the injury site, with greater precision and minimized possible side effects. In this context, nanoparticles (NPs) play a key role in the fight against cancer, diabetes, infectious diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases. Also, nanodelivery systems offer many advantages due to their features: (i) overcoming poor drug solubility and chemical stability; (ii) evading biodegradation in the human body; and (iii) decreasing the resistance of anticancer drugs and antibiotics.
Currently NPs are mostly used as nanocarriers; nevertheless, this paradigm is shifting as some NPs were found to also display intrinsic therapeutic action. Additionally, upon adequate targeting, NPs are a suitable platform for diagnostic work, allowing imaging at the nano level.
This Special Issue explores strategies in which nanotechnology plays a central role in medical care advances. Different submission types are welcome, such as original research papers, short communications, reviews, case reports, and perspectives.
Dr. Sandra Pinto
Prof. Dr. Vasco D. B. Bonifácio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nanomedicine
- nanodelivery systems
- polymer therapeutics
- polymer nanoparticles
- anticancer nanomaterials
- antimicrobial nanoparticles
- theranostics
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