Biomedicine brings huge prospect and potential for clinic patients and medical care system. All the achievements and efforts are aimed at improving quality of life and conquering the threat of diseases. With the rapid advancement of science, various traditional medical treatments are progressively changing. A growing number of novel materials, methods and technologies are involved in promoting the development of biomedicine. Multifunctionalized materials were fabricated into varied nanocarrier for biomedicine applications. For instance, smart response materials for microenvironment in vivo and physicochemical in vitro have been concerned by many researchers in the field of drug carrier. The photothermal therapy and photodynamic therapy materials, including synthetic and natural biopolymers, have grabbed tons of researchers’ attention on biomedicine application. In recent years, the carbon-based multifunctional materials like carbon dots, graphene or carbon nanotubes have also been considered as the potential clinical application of diagnosis, detection, and treatment. Similarly, multifunctional nanocarriers with controllable physiochemical properties have been focused on for many years for targeting drug, DNA, or small molecules delivery.
The aims of this Research Topic are to sincerely seek for high-quality original research papers and reviews about multifunctionalized smart materials and nanocarrier for medical imaging and drug delivery. The scope covers the preparation, design, characterization, methods, and applications of the multifunctionalized smart material. More importantly, this Topic also involves smart drug carrier, multifunctional drug delivery, manufacturing technologies, and relevant mechanism exploration in medical imaging and drug delivery.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
• Smart responsive materials for microenvironment
• Multifunctionalized materials with theragnostic
• Drug targeting and nanomedicines
• Controlled release drug delivery technologies
• Physicochemical response biomaterial
• Chemical kinetics of biomaterials
• Synthetic and natural multifunctional biomaterials
• Multiple-response imaging probe
• Biomaterials based on bio vesicle
• Enzyme responsive biomaterials for clinical use
• Biomaterials for targeted gene therapy
Biomedicine brings huge prospect and potential for clinic patients and medical care system. All the achievements and efforts are aimed at improving quality of life and conquering the threat of diseases. With the rapid advancement of science, various traditional medical treatments are progressively changing. A growing number of novel materials, methods and technologies are involved in promoting the development of biomedicine. Multifunctionalized materials were fabricated into varied nanocarrier for biomedicine applications. For instance, smart response materials for microenvironment in vivo and physicochemical in vitro have been concerned by many researchers in the field of drug carrier. The photothermal therapy and photodynamic therapy materials, including synthetic and natural biopolymers, have grabbed tons of researchers’ attention on biomedicine application. In recent years, the carbon-based multifunctional materials like carbon dots, graphene or carbon nanotubes have also been considered as the potential clinical application of diagnosis, detection, and treatment. Similarly, multifunctional nanocarriers with controllable physiochemical properties have been focused on for many years for targeting drug, DNA, or small molecules delivery.
The aims of this Research Topic are to sincerely seek for high-quality original research papers and reviews about multifunctionalized smart materials and nanocarrier for medical imaging and drug delivery. The scope covers the preparation, design, characterization, methods, and applications of the multifunctionalized smart material. More importantly, this Topic also involves smart drug carrier, multifunctional drug delivery, manufacturing technologies, and relevant mechanism exploration in medical imaging and drug delivery.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
• Smart responsive materials for microenvironment
• Multifunctionalized materials with theragnostic
• Drug targeting and nanomedicines
• Controlled release drug delivery technologies
• Physicochemical response biomaterial
• Chemical kinetics of biomaterials
• Synthetic and natural multifunctional biomaterials
• Multiple-response imaging probe
• Biomaterials based on bio vesicle
• Enzyme responsive biomaterials for clinical use
• Biomaterials for targeted gene therapy