Novel Functional Biomaterials for Drug Delivery
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinal Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 2139
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biomaterial; drug delivery system; hydrogel; self-assembly; phospholipid-mimic
Interests: biomaterials; tissue regeneration; drug delivery; electrospun; nanofibers
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Interests: biomaterial; phosphorus dendrimer; drug delivery system; regeneration; gene carrier
Interests: drug delivery system; self-assembly; liposome; phospholipid; gene carrier
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since the concept of drug carriers was proposed, various forms of drug delivery systems (DDSs) have been reported in recent decades, especially based on nanotechnology. It is widely accepted that DDS technology is crucial to the therapeutic strategy of almost all sorts of diseases. In this area, functional material design is one of the most common pointcuts for developing novel DDSs. On one hand, biomaterials with nano- or microscale organizations could be applied as carriers to encapsulate different cargos for controllable delivery or release, such as nanostructured lipid carriers (NLC). On the other hand, chemical derivatization could directly change the physicochemical and pharmaceutical properties of molecules. The formulated prodrugs could demonstrate meliorative stability, solubility, specificity, or even self-assembly capacity. Undoubtedly, the further design of these chemical structures could provide additional contrivable functions for better efficacies.
This Special Issue focuses on the novel DDS designs based on functional biomaterials as well as the latest advances in basic or applied research. Any works around this topic are welcomed to be submitted to this Special Issue. We accept all sorts of articles, including but not limited to reviews, original research articles, and communications.
Dr. Yawei Du
Dr. Juan Wang
Dr. Liang Chen
Dr. Wei He
Dr. Zhengwei Cai
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- drug delivery system
- prodrug
- nanoparticle
- liposome
- micelle
- controlled release
- stimuli response
- self-assembly
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