Recent Advances in Natural Product-Based Nanostructured Systems: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Pharmaceuticals (ISSN 1424-8247). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 705
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nanotechnology has presented innovative solutions to many of humanity’s needs over the last few decades. Medicine, environmental sanitation, engineering, power generation, agriculture, and many other fields have benefited from nano-based solutions. However, the continuous development of nanotechnology depends on high-performance materials. In this regard, nature is an incredibly rich source of chemical compounds, many of which can be used either to design new products or to replace non-sustainable materials in products and processes. Natural compounds are not only intrinsically sustainable but can also present superior biocompatibility, enhanced effectiveness and better safety. The use of these compounds in nanotechnology can also be inspired by their in situ role in the organisms from which they are derived. Moreover, many naturally occurring nanostructures, such as films, membranes, vesicles, and viruses, are based on biomolecules specially selected over millions of years of biological evolution for performing their function at the nanoscale. Moreover, many drugs and other bioactive compounds derived from natural sources can be loaded into nanosystems in order to achieve enhanced effectiveness and safety. Therefore, this Special Issue titled "Recent Advances in Natural Product-Based Nanostructured Systems" is dedicated to collecting works on the following: (1) biomimetic and bioinspired nanostructures; (2) green nanotechnology; and (3) nanocarriers for bioactive compounds.
Dr. Luís Alexandre Muehlmann
Dr. João Paulo Longo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural product
- nanostructured systems
- nanotechnology
- nanostructures
- nanocarriers
- bioactive compounds
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