Mesoporous Materials for Drug Delivery and Theranostics

Dear Colleagues,

Mesoporous materials, especially those made of silica, are capturing great interest thanks to their exceptional pore size and surface area and ease surface functionalization, thus enabling a broad series of intervention in the field of nanomedicine. For many years, these aspects have fostered a deep investigation of mesoporous nanoparticles to design and fabricate biocompatible, smart, and even mechanizable nanotools for controlled, stimuli-responsive drug or gene delivery up to the most recent theranostics applications, in particular for cancer therapy. 

This Special Issue of Pharmaceutics is dedicated to the most recent advances in the use of mesoporous micro- and nanostructures for designing novel “smart” biomedical systems applied to drug delivery and theranostics. Participation with research papers, short communications, and reviews focused on these topics and describing the synthesis and characterization of mesoporous materials, also in a core–shell configuration with other nanomaterials and their functionalization with smart and stimuli-responsive gatekeepers, as well as reporter molecules or particles for diagnostic applications and their final in vitro and in vivo applications in the nanomedicine field, is highly encouraged.

Prof. Valentina Cauda
Dr. Giancarlo Canavese
Guest Editors

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