Magnetic Nanomaterials for Drug Delivery and Therapy II
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanotechnology and Applied Nanosciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2022) | Viewed by 381
Special Issue Editor
Interests: protease signatures for early cancer diagnostics and cancer therapy decisions; imaging of biophysical barriers in cancer/spectral imaging/micrometastases; advanced drug delivery and drug delivery materials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit a manuscript to this Special Issue of Applied Sciences, entitled Magnetic Nanomaterials for Drug Delivery and Therapy. Magnetic nanomaterials are constantly evolving towards a higher complexity, and, therefore have an improved efficacy in drug delivery across the blood–brain barrier, to sites of infections, chronic inflammation, and tumors and metastases. Advances in material sciences will be the key to developing efficient drug delivery methodologies. These are urgently needed, because both classic chemotherapy and conventional nanotherapy lead to significant collateral effects, mainly because they cannot deliver drugs efficiently across physiological barriers. Active transport to targeted areas is required to elude these barriers. There is a significant potential for the synergy of nanoparticle-based physical therapies (e.g., hyperthermia or ultrasound) and chemotherapy or immunotherapy. However, to date, they are widely unexplored. In this Issue, nanomaterial-centered approaches to nanotherapy will be discussed. We sincerely hope for a wide variety of technically sound manuscripts in this exciting research area.
Prof. Dr. Stefan Bossmann
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Magnetic nanoparticles
- Drug delivery
- Chemotherapy
- Physical therapy
- Targeted therapy
- Blood–brain barrier
- Infectious disease
- Chronic inflammation
- Solid tumor
