Organic Polymers for Encapsulation of Drugs, Food Ingredients and Agrochemicals II
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2024) | Viewed by 12356
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Interests: synthesis and characterization of polymers; controlled drug delivery; polymeric carriers; water remediation; flocculants and adsorbents; chitosan; stimuli-responsive polymers
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Interests: organic and macromolecular chemistry; environmental chemistry; water pollution; water purification technologies; wastewater engineering; adsorption processes; polysaccharides; cyclodextrins; chitosan; hemp; bioassays
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Interests: nanomaterials; temperature and pH-sensitive polymers; amphiphilic polymers; living radical polymerization; controlled drug release
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As you know, drugs, food ingredients, and agrochemicals help to improve the quality of life around the world. In the last decade, researchers have developed outstanding systems to use them in a minimal quantity that allows us to reach the desired efficiency and reduce side effects and/or contamination derived from the overuse of these substances. For this goal, the encapsulation of guest molecules has been studied using organic polymers (natural, synthetic and semi-synthetic chains) as platforms with different architectures, such as films, gels, stars, micelles, liposomes, vesicles, polyelectrolyte complexes, etc. These platforms can protect guest compounds against degradation and provide enhanced water solubility, increasing the percentage of substance that is available for biological action. Additionally, the release of guest molecules can be tuned, resulting in improved effectiveness.
This Special Issue is focused on the collection of current advances in the design of systems involving the encapsulation of drugs (antineoplastics, antibiotics, hormones, etc.), food ingredients (nutraceuticals, dyes, etc.) and agrochemicals (insecticides, herbicides and fungicides) using organic polymers as carriers. We welcome original papers and review articles addressing this topic for platforms from macro- to micro/nano-scales.
Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Antonio Picos Corrales
Dr. Grégorio Crini
Prof. Dr. Angel Licea-Claverie
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- polymeric carriers
- encapsulation
- films
- emulsions
- gels
- micelles
- liposomes
- vesicles
- polyelectrolyte complexes
- star polymers
- amphiphilic copolymers
- stimuli-responsive polymers
- polysaccharides
- drugs
- food ingredients
- agrochemicals
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