New Frontiers in Therapies, Diagnostics and Biomedical Engineering of Clay-Based Materials
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Pharmacy and Formulation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 92
Special Issue Editor
Interests: clay minerals; hybrid materials; drug delivery; theranostic systems; photodynamic systems; biopolymer-based hybrid materials; carbon quantum dots; (bio)nanocomposite
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Clay minerals have emerged as promising materials in biomedicine due to their exceptional properties, such as high surface area, stability, biocompatibility and surface modulation capacity. This Special Issue of Pharmaceutics focuses on clays and their derivatives combined with other compounds and solid materials, such as quantum dots, metals, polymers, and biomolecules, to create innovative devices and multifunctional therapeutic systems. The synthesis and characterization of these systems are essential to optimize their properties and ensure their efficacy and safety in biomedical applications. Such devices can be applied in nanomedicine strategies, photodynamic therapies, controlled release of bioactive molecules, antibacterial / anti-inflammatory systems, molecular diagnostics, and theranostic systems, which combine diagnosis and treatment in a single platform.
This Special Issue invites contributions that detail the latest advances in the construction, modulation, and/or functionalization of clay-based materials for these purposes, as well as techniques for characterizing their physicochemical and biological properties.
Dr. Ana Clecia Santos de Alcântara
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- clay and clay minerals
- biomedical diagnostics
- tissue engineering
- controlled drug release
- theranostic systems
- photodynamic therapy
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