Application of Smart Nanostructures in Medicine

Abstract

Smart nanostructures are sensitive to various environmental or biological parameters. They offer great potential for numerous biomedical applications such as monitoring, diagnoses, repair and treatment of human biological systems. The present work introduces smart nanostructures for biomedical applications. In addition to drug delivery, which has been extensively reported and reviewed, increasing interest has been observed in using smart nanostructures to develop various novel techniques of sensing, imaging, tissue engineering, biofabrication, nanodevices and nanorobots for the improvement of healthcare.

Keywords::

• nanodevices
• nanomedicine
• nanorobots
• smart nanomaterials
• smart nanostructures

Financial & competing interests disclosure

The authors greatly appreciate the support received from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 20975093), Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No. R4100049) and Foundation of the State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Hunan University, China (No. 200909). The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.

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Funding

The authors greatly appreciate the support received from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 20975093), Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No. R4100049) and Foundation of the State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Hunan University, China (No. 200909). The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.