Classical and Novel Technology in the Extraction and Analysis of Active Ingredients from Natural Products for Effective Pre-Clinical Use
A special issue of Pharmaceuticals (ISSN 1424-8247). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 318
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sample pretreatment; nanotechnology; nanocomposites; active ingredients; medicinal plants; foods; drugs analysis; polyphenolic compounds; flavonoids; classical analysis; instrumental analysis; paper-based smart phone; spectroscopic methods; colorimetric methods; analytical tools; diseases monitoring and treatments; controlled drugs release; diabetes; biomarkers; cancers; malaria; cutting edge tools development; interdisciplinary research
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nature offers diverse resources with the necessary ingredients to help maintain or improve the wellbeing of all living species. The diversity of these resources presents a huge challenge to the discovery, purification, formulation and biomedical use of their active constituents. The traditional or conventional methods for the extraction and analysis of the active ingredients from different natural products have been quite successful but come with unique limitations. The development of science in general and nanotechnology in particular, have boosted innovation and empowered existing tools and technologies in the areas of sample pretreatment, analytes determination and biomedical applications of active ingredients. In this special issue, we are collecting relevant research works and reviews on innovative approaches for the pretreatment, extraction and analysis of active ingredients from complex matrices using either the classical methods, nanotechnology or a combination of both with demonstrable applicability evinced by in-vivo or in-vitro experiments. Any work aside from the classical methods (solvent extraction, pressing extraction, ultrasound assisted extraction, microwave assisted extraction, blended in water extraction, boiling and ultrasound extraction etc.), nanomaterials or composites designed and synthesized with sound demonstration of effective applicability for sample pretreatment or as an analytical tool for the active ingredient is welcome.
Dr. Pierre Dramou
Dr. Raphael Nammahime Alolga
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- classical extraction
- nanotechnology
- active ingredients
- nanozymes
- nanocomposites
- molecularly imprinted polymer
- magnetic nanoparticles
- MOFs
- natural products
- pre-clinical studies
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