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Record Nr.

UNINA9910688471803321

Titolo

Frontiers in toxicity and functionalization of nanomaterials / / edited by Dong-Wook Han, Wojciech Chrzanowski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland : , : MDPI, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

3-03842-735-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 169 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

620.115

Soggetti

Nanostructured material

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Over the last decade, various nanomaterials (NMs) have attracted tremendous attention with the incredible development in nanoscience and nanotechnology. Some NMs are explored increasingly for biomedical applications, including drug delivery carriers, imaging probes, antimicrobial agents, biosensors, and tissue engineering scaffolds. However, the in vitro and in vivo toxicities of NMs related to oxidative stress are the main obstacles to use them in biomedical fields. One of the most promising strategies to address these obstacles is functionalizing NMs with biocompatible molecules or materials. In this Special Issue, we are especially interested in manuscripts that advance the understanding of the interaction of NMs with cells, such as cellular responses to NMs, intracellular behaviors of NMs, therapeutic and imaging potentials of NMs, as well as the functionalization of NMs through coating, patterning and hybridization with other biomolecules for multifaceted biomedical applications.