Advanced Studies in Nano-BioAnalytical Physico-Chemistry

Dear Colleagues,

Nanoscience has seen major improvements in recent years, this special issue aims to highlight advanced studies in the field of nanobioanalytics in medicine and biotechnology. A key positioning is what occurs at the interface between engineered and biological systems. The bio-interface manage the interactions. Understanding the involved mechanisms is a way to enhance the selectivity and the sensitivity of analytical devices. This governed also, with the morphology, the composition and the structuration, the biofunctionality or the biodistribution of the nanomaterials immersed in biologic environments. Smart embedded approaches between the transducing elements and the bio-interface is required while keeping in mind that nanocharacterization of such systems is inseparable from their design and realization. Precise characterizations of the surface chemistry and bio-interface is also important to improve the biodistribution, in particular the control of the so-called protein corona. Thus all these parameters are crucial to improved medical diagnosis and theranostics.

This Special Issue aims to address new inputs in the field of biosensing, diagnosis but also theranostics by using engineered nanomaterials and bulk substrates in complex biological samples.

This Special Issue will include wide range research articles from highly sophisticated biosensors to analytical platforms for in vitro studies in complex biological media and/or engineered nanomaterials for in vivo investigations covering also biomonitoring and theranostics.

Dr. Wilfrid Boireau
Prof. Dr. Nadine Millot
Guest Editor

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