Integrated insulin-iron nanoparticles: a multi-modal approach for receptor-specific bioimaging, reactive oxygen species scavenging, and wound healing
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Bio-Nano Interfaces in Biomedicine
The Research Topic entitled “Bio-Nano interfaces in Biomedicine” is intended to explore the significant advancements in the design and fabrication of diverse materials in the fields of drug delivery, as well as tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Since the advent of nanotechnology, several advancements have been evidenced towards generating exceptional and innovative nanocomposites (organic/inorganic/organic-inorganic) owing to their promising chemical, electrical, optical, and physical properties. Recently, there has been a cumulative demand for the advancement of various types of nanomaterials and for understanding the origin and advances for the development of materials with versatile characteristics. These characteristic features of nanomaterials would garner their spatiotemporal features, influencing the biological surfaces towards improved internalization for cancer therapy or growth towards regenerative medicine. For the benefit of the broad readership of “DISCOVER NANO”, the major focus of this thematic issue covers several aspects of theoretical advances, synthetic strategies, and the applicability of diverse nanomaterials and their interactions with the biological surfaces towards their utility in biomedicine. In addition, advances in the syntheses and plausible mechanistic elucidations relevant to this topic are also focused.
Keywords: Nanotechnology; Bio-nano interfaces; Drug delivery; Tissue Engineering; Surface modification; Cancer therapy; Regenertive Medicine
Editors
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Ranjith Kumar Kankala
Ranjith K. Kankala is currently working as an Assoc. Professor in the Institute of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering at Huaqiao University, PR China. He has attained his Bachelors (2009) and Masters (2012) degrees specializing in the area of Pharmaceutical formulation. After receiving his Ph.D. degree in 2016 from the National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan, he joined Huaqiao University. He recently got listed as one of the top 2% of Eminent scientists by Elsevier/Scopus-Stanford Repository. Ranjith K. Kankala's research expertise is related to fabricating multifunctional nanocomposites and engineered inorganic nano-/micro- hybrid systems.
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Ai-Zheng Chen
Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Sichuan University in 2007. After postdoctoral research at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University for two years, he joined Huaqiao University, where he is now a professor and Vice Dean of the College of Chemical Engineering and Director of the Institute of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering. He has been granted 9 National projects and has published more than 150 peer-reviewed publications. His research interests are the application of biomaterials for drug delivery systems using supercritical fluid technology, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine.
