In this special issue, we will focus on the challenging issues of nanomaterials for practical applications, and particularly for medical applications.
Guest editors:
Wei Chen, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Email: weichen@uta.edu
Special issue information:
Nanotechnology has made it possible for us to create materials that we could never do before by taking advantages of the size effects and the surface effects. A nanomaterial may have different behaviors compared to the same substance in bulk form. That means that a material could change when it goes from bulk to nanoscale and this change could bring a revolution in the world. Nanomaterials have been used for many different things including our foods, our clothes, our lights, our building materials, our medicine and so on. Nanomaterials are, not just something made in a laboratory but they are also found in nature. In ash clouds from volcanoes, sea breeze and in the smoke from a fire, for example.
Nanomedicine is the application of nanotechnology to the field of medicine by the use of nanomaterials. The most common application of nanomedicine involves employing nanoparticles to enhance the action of drugs in the treatment of cancer and diabetes as examples. Many current applications of nanomedicine are enforcing drug delivery for therapy for cancer targeting for precise diagnosis and treatment.
Even the research in nanomaterials and nanomedicine has made a great progress, there is still a big gap between the basic research in the laboratory and the practical applications. In this special issue, we will focus on the challenging issues of nanomaterials for practical applications, and particularly for medical applications. We encourage submissions in these related areas, short letters, communications, research articles, reviews and perspectives are welcome.
Manuscript submission information:
You are invited to submit your manuscript at any time before the submission deadline. For any inquiries about the appropriateness of contribution topics, please contact Wei Chen via weichen@uta.edu.
The journal’s submission platform (Editorial Manager®) is now available for receiving submissions to this Special Issue. Please refer to the Guide for Authors to prepare your manuscript, and select the article type of "VSI: NanoMat & NanoMed" when submitting your manuscript online. Both the Guide for Authors and the submission portal could be found on the Journal Homepage here: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/materials-today-advances
All the submissions deemed suitable to be sent for peer review will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Upon its editorial acceptance, your article will go into production immediately. It will be published in the latest regular issue, while be presented on the specific Special Issue webpage simultaneously. In regular issues, Special Issue articles will be clearly marked and branded.
Submission Timeline: 15th July 2022
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