Conclusions and Perspectives

Abstract

Dendritic macromolecules and dendrimers, pioneered in the 1980s, represent a dynamically expanding area spanning from physics, chemistry, and biology to a broad field of biomedical applications. Dendrimers interpenetrate to till now isolated areas of science and create an interconnected, logical, mutually influencing scientific network, the dendrimer science (dendrimerology). Dendrimers stimulated also the development of organic chemistry (ligations, click chemistry, and catalysis), physical chemistry (different sorts of separation methods, purification, detection, and spectroscopic methods), nanosciences (nanoparticles, nanolayers, and nanoelectronics), and biomedical applications (diagnostics of microorganisms, parasites, cancer, and preparation of semisynthetic and synthetic vaccines against viruses, bacteria, and cancer).