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Nanotechnology for Environmental Engineering - SPECIAL ISSUE: Nanotechnology in Battle Against COVID-19

The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was first reported in Wuhan, China in late December 2019. Compared to the previously identified coronaviruses (e.g. SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV), the fatality rate of COVID-19 is lower but it is more infectious and transmissible. This has caused a rapidly increasing death tolls (171,000 to date following Worldometer, April 21) which have been a wake-up call for global health. Many researchers have, therefore, recently turned their focus to this growing threat in order to breakdown its spread. Currently, there is no specific antiviral treatment available for COVID-19 except the wide range of pharmaceutical agents which are still being investigated. Meanwhile, among various fields of science and technology, nanotechnology has great potential to be of enormous help in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of COVID-19.

The main objective of this special issue is to publish high-quality manuscripts on the most recent advances of nanotechnology in fighting COVID-19. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

  • Nanotechnology tools to detect, treat, and to prevent COVID’19
  • Nano-scale medicine and technology to fight against COVID’19
  • Nanosensors for rapid diagnostics of COVID’19
  • Biomedical Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
  • Nanoparticles to intercept COVID'19
  • Etc.


Guest Editors:

Saad Motahhir: ENSA, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco
Email: Saad.motahhir@usmba.ac.ma (this opens in a new tab)

Francis Verpoort: Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China / National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia / Ghent University Global Campus, Incheon, South Korea
Email: Francis.Verpoort@Ghent.ac.kr (this opens in a new tab)

Mu. Naushad: College of Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA
Email: mnaushad@ksu.edu.sa (this opens in a new tab)

Ahmed A. Farghaly: Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA
Email: abozeedfaraa@vcu.edu


Submission Deadline:

31 December 2020
 

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