Chitosan in Drug Delivery
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2024) | Viewed by 1392
Special Issue Editors
Interests: organic synthesis; chitosan microparticles and nanoparticles; antioxidant activity; diabetes mellitus type 2; drug delivery systems; drug loading; release profile
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Interests: synthesis; 13C-NMR; 1H-NMR; synthetic chemistry; synthetic organic chemistry; heterocyclic chemistry; organic chemistry synthesis; IR; medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry
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Interests: anti-inflammatory agents; DPPH; antioxidant activity
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Drug delivery systems (DDSs) hold an important position in the pharmaceutical field in order to improve the pharmacological properties of free conventional drugs. Chitosan, either alone or as a composite, due to its numerous beneficial properties is extensively researched as a drug carrier for various routes of administration. Its properties are closely related to the type of manufactured carrier (hydrogels, films, membranes, beads, porous foams, micro- and nanoparticles, in situ gels, sponges, nanofibers, etc.). Therefore, chemists, bioengineers, physicists, and materials science specialists targeting the development of new DDSs, are welcome to share their results by publishing in this Special Issue.
Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, yet are not limited to, the following:
- Design, development, and characterization of chitosan DDSs;
- Applications of these DDSs and their in vitro and in vivo evaluation;
- Other topics which highlight the importance of using chitosan in the development of new DDSs to support targeted therapy.
This Special Issue is addressed to a large number of readers in the materials science field; we encourage the submission of articles for review and later publication.
Dr. Florentina Lupascu
Dr. Maria Apotrosoaei
Dr. Ioana Mirela Vasincu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- chitosan
- drug delivery systems
- hydrogels
- films
- nanofibers
- microparticles
- nanoparticles
- polymeric materials
- target drug carriers
- drugs
- polymer carriers
- drug loading
