This Special Issue reprint highlights seventy years since the discovery of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in 1952 by Russian scientists LV Radushkevich and VM Lukyanovich in what was then the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the USSR. It also reflects the popularization by the well-known Japanese scientist S Iijima, since 1991, of carbon nanostructures, including CNTs, towards nanotechnology as a forever impactful and inspiring field. For researchers, academics, and teachers of all levels, from novice to expert to guru, the articles contained within this Special Issue are themed around sustainability from nanotechnology, pertaining to diameter measurement, rotor system molecular simulation, ultra-high tensile strength, energy, filtration via membrane distillation, environmental remediation using adsorption, ionic liquids as curing agents, biosensors and bioinspired sensors, and electrical/mechanical properties of polymer nanocomposites. The CNT is a legacy 1D nanomaterial, only after which was 2D graphene able to emerge. This is a global and mixed-country authorship Special Issue, with this reprint containing articles from Canada, Saudi Arabia, China, Russia, Spain, India, Japan, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the USA, Germany, Turkiye, and Malaysia. The Guest Editor is from Singapore and began publishing critical work on the CNT-polymer interface towards the mechanical properties of the nanocomposite up to 20 years ago.

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The direct conversion of sunlight into electricity (photovoltaic or PV for short) is evolving rapidly, and is a technology becoming a mainstream clean energy production method. However, to compete with conventional energy production methods using fossil fuels, the conversion efficiency needs to be increased, and the manufacturing cost should be reduced further. Both of these require the improvement of solar energy materials, and the device architectures used for the conversion of light into electrical energy. This Special Issue presents the latest developments in some solar energy materials like Si, CdTe, CIGS, SnS and Perovskites), and the device structures suitable for next generation solar cells. In particular, the progress in graded bandgap multi-layer solar cells are presented in this Special Issue.

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This e-book aims to compile advances in the area of food manufacturing including packaging to address issues of food safety, quality, fraud, and how these processes (new or old) could affect the organoleptic characteristics of foods, with the aim to promote consumers’ satisfaction. Moreover, food supply issues are explored. New and improved technologies are employed in the area of food manufacturing to address consumer needs in terms of quality and safety. The issues of research and development should be taken into account seriously before launching a new product onto the market. Finally, food fraud and authenticity are very important issues, and the food industry should focus on addressing them.

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“Antioxidant Activity of Polyphenolic Plant Extracts” is a collection of scientific articles regarding polyphenols, that is, substances occurring naturally in plants and exhibiting many beneficial effects on human health. Among polyphenols’ interesting biological properties, their antioxidant activity is considered the most important. This book brings together experts from different research fields on topics related to polyphenols, such as their isolation and purification, assessment of their antioxidant activity, prevention from oxidative stress-induced diseases and use as food additives. The polyphenols used in the present studies are derived from a great variety of plants, ranging from well-known species to rare ones that are only found in specific regions. Moreover, some of the studies provide evidence that polyphenols may be used for the prevention and treatment of common diseases such as diabetes mellitus, Alzheimers’ disease, cardiovascular and intestinal diseases. Importantly, in several of the studies “green extraction methods” for the isolation of polyphenols were developed using modern technologies, where few or no organic solvents were used, in order to minimize environmental and health impacts.

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This Special Issue comprises 17 research articles and 2 review articles, covering studies on both individual and composite polymer modifications. Topics include high-content polymer-modified bitumen, epoxy resin adhesives, SBS-modified bitumen, PE-modified bitumen, crumb-rubber-modified bitumen, and biopolymeric capsules and bitumen rejuvenators.

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Over the few coming decades, bio-based and biodegradable plastics produced from sustainable bioresources should essentially substitute the prevalent synthetic plastics produced from exhaustible hydrocarbon fossils. To the greatest extend, this innovative trend has to apply to the packaging manufacturing area and especially to food packaging implementation. To supply the rapid production increment of biodegradable plastics, there must be provided the effective development of scientific-technical potential that promotes the comprehensive exploration of their structural, functional, and dynamic characteristics. In this regard, the transition from passive barrier materials preventing water and oxygen transport as well as bacteria infiltration to active functional packaging that ensures gas diffusion selectivity, antiseptics' and other modifiers' release should be based on the thorough study of biopolymer crystallinity, morphology, diffusivity, controlled biodegradability and life cycle assessment. This Special Issue accumulates the papers of international teams that devoted to scientific and industrial bases providing the biodegradable material development in the barrier and active packaging as well as in agricultural applications. We hope that book will bring great interest to the experts in the area of sustainable biopolymers.

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The close relationship between food intake and health promotion is not new; it dates back to Hippocrates’s famous “let food be your medicine and medicine be your food”, which is still as timely as ever. In recent years, some scientific evidence has supported this statement, showing that dietary plant extracts, or bioactive compounds isolated therefrom, are able to prevent or slow down the progression of chronic and degenerative diseases, making them particularly interesting from a nutraceutical point of view. On the other hand, extensive chemical investigations of functional plant extracts’ constituents are needed to rationalize certain bioactivity, in terms of efficacy and safety.

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Phages have shown a high biotechnological potential with numerous applications. The advent of high-resolution microscopy techniques aligned with omic and molecular tools have revealed innovative phage features and enabled new processes that can be further exploited for biotechnological applications in a wide variety of fields. The high-quality original articles and reviews presented in this Special Issue demonstrate the incredible potential of phages and their derived proteins in a wide range of biotechnological applications for human benefit. Considering the emergence of amazing new available bioengineering tools and the high abundance of phages and the multitude of phage proteins yet to be discovered and studied, we believe that the upcoming years will present us with many more fascinating and new previously unimagined phage-based biotechnological applications.

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Cellulose empowers measurement science and technology with a simple, low-cost, and highly transformative analytical platform. This book helps the reader to understand and build an overview of the state of the art in cellulose-based (bio)sensing, particularly in terms of the design, fabrication, and advantageous analytical performance. In addition, wearable, clinical, and environmental applications of cellulose-based (bio)sensors are reported, where novel (nano)materials, architectures, signal enhancement strategies, as well as real-time connectivity and portability play a critical role.

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This book focuses on the prediction of antioxidant peptides and the improvement of the aqueous solubility, chemical stability, bioactivity, and release properties of natural antioxidants through enzymatic glycosylation and encapsulation technology. The rational design and construction of delivery systems are effective for the application of antioxidants in the industry. Special attention in this book is given to inorganic nanoparticles, biopolymer-based particulate systems, prediction in antioxidant activity of peptides, evaluation of encapsulation and delivery performance, and application in commercial products.

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This reprint includes recent trends in all aspects of applied scientific research on chitin and collagen, including isolation, purification, and characterization. A few recent innovations in chitin and collagen have been incorporated into this reprint. These innovations could potentially be applied in various scientific and industrial research. Due to its broad array of biological functions such as anticancer, antimicrobial, bone tissue regeneration, antioxidant, and anti-aging activities, collagen has recently attracted vast interest in the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and cosmeceutical industries. Similarly, chitin and chitin-derived chitosan have many applications, including in the medical, environmental, and agricultural sectors.

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This Special Issue covers recent research in nanochemistry convergence from disease prevention to diagnosis and treatment. It includes studies on new (bio)molecules and hybrids with diagnostic, chemopreventive, or therapeutical properties; novel nanobioengineered biosensors for disease diagnostics; and nanoparticles and nanobioconjugates for targeted drug delivery. The Special Issue collects a benchmark of state-of-the-art works on the computational simulation, structural modeling, and construction of new libraries of molecules to identify potential targets, synthesize molecules, and study their potential in developing diagnostic and therapeutic tools. It illustrates other topics that go from directed evolution techniques to help create mutants of proteins with enhanced activity concerning the native structures to reviews on nanobioprobes using conjugation approaches and biosensors as promising tools for disease detection. The Special Issue also provides examples of drug delivery systems based on biocompatible and biodegradable materials for chemoprevention.

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This book focuses on how nanoscale systems can be used to deliver molecules to help with cancer management. It provides a broad overview of some of the key strategies for nanocarrier design. These strategies are brought together by the wide compositional variety of these systems and the diversity of molecules that may be carried. Additionally, functionalization strategies, codelivery, and combination with other treatment modalities highlight a very active research field.

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Objects of nanotechnology such as micro- and nanoparticles are very interesting due to their unique properties. This reprint will be useful to scientists of diverse backgrounds, i.e., material science, organic and inorganic chemistry, biochemistry, and biology.

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Micro and nano-electro-mechanical system (M/NEMS) devices constitute key technological building blocks to enable increased additional functionalities within Integrated Circuits (ICs) in the More-Than-Moore era, as described in the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors. The CMOS ICs and M/NEMS dies can be combined in the same package (SiP), or integrated within a single chip (SoC). In the SoC approach the M/NEMS devices are monolithically integrated together with CMOS circuitry allowing the development of compact and low-cost CMOS-M/NEMS devices for multiple applications (physical sensors, chemical sensors, biosensors, actuators, energy actuators, filters, mechanical relays, and others). On-chip CMOS electronics integration can overcome limitations related to the extremely low-level signals in sub-micrometer and nanometer scale electromechanical transducers enabling novel breakthrough applications. This Special Issue aims to gather high quality research contributions dealing with MEMS and NEMS devices monolithically integrated with CMOS, independently of the final application and fabrication approach adopted (MEMS-first, interleaved MEMS, MEMS-last or others).]

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The presence of drops, bubbles, and particles affects the behavior and response of complex multiphase fluids. In many applications, these complex fluids have more than one non-Newtonian component, e.g., polymer melts, liquid crystals, and blood plasma. In fact, most fluids exhibit non-Newtonian behaviors, such as yield stress, viscoelastity, viscoplasticity, shear thinning, or shear thickening, under certain flow conditions. Even in the complex fluids composed of Newtonian components, the coupling between different components and the evolution of internal boundaries often lead to a complex rheology. Thus the dynamics of drops, bubbles, and particles in both Newtonian fluids and non-Newtonian fluids are crucial to the understanding of the macroscopic behavior of complex fluids. This Special Issue aims to gather a wide variety of papers that focus on drop, bubble and particle dynamics in complex fluids. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, drop deformation, rising drops, pair-wise drop interactions, drop migration in channel flows, and the interaction of particles with flow systems such as pastes and slurries, glasses, suspensions, and emulsions. We emphasize numerical simulations, but also welcome experimental and theoretical contributions.

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Canada continues to have a rich history of ground-breaking research in drug delivery within academic institutions, pharmaceutical industry and the biotechnology community.

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Electronically Active Textiles (e-textiles) are a type of textile material that has some form of electronic functionality. This can be achieved by attaching electronics onto the surface of the textile, incorporating electronic components as part of the fabrication of the textile itself, or by integrating electronics into the yarns or fibers that comprises the textile. The addition of electronic components can give textiles a wide range of new functions from lighting or heating to advanced sensing capabilities. As such, e-textiles have provided a platform for developing a range of new novel products in fields, such as healthcare, sports, protection, transport, and communications. The purpose of this volume is to report on the advances in the integration of electronics into textiles, and presents original research in the field of e-textiles as well as a comprehensive review of the evolution of e-Textiles. Topics include the fabrication and illumination of e-textiles and the use of e-textiles for temperature sensing.

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Electrospinning is a versatile and effective technique widely used to manufacture nanofibrous structures from a diversity of materials (synthetic, natural or inorganic). The electrospun nanofibrous meshes’ composition, morphology, porosity, and surface functionality support the development of advanced solutions for many biomedical applications. The Special Issue on “Electrospun Nanofibers for Biomedical Applications” assembles a set of original and highly-innovative contributions showcasing advanced devices and therapies based on or involving electrospun meshes. It comprises 13 original research papers covering topics that span from biomaterial scaffolds’ structure and functionalization, nanocomposites, antibacterial nanofibrous systems, wound dressings, monitoring devices, electrical stimulation, bone tissue engineering to first-in-human clinical trials. This publication also includes four review papers focused on drug delivery and tissue engineering applications.

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This reprint collects works which stimulate and spread the latest knowledge on energy in construction and building materials, providing the basis for new ideas on various topics for young investigators as well as leading experts in the field of Materials Science and Engineering. The collection features fifteen research papers and one review study. The main research aim covers the topic of thermal energy storage in construction and building components.

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This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

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In recent years, there has been a growing need for both nutritional and healthy foods with superior functional properties. In this line, bioactive compounds are economically available in different foods systems with limitations in quality and functionality.The present Special Issue is placed in this context, and aimed to provide a collection of modern chemical strategies developed with the intent of extracting, characterizing, tracing, or authenticating food bioactive compounds. Original research articles dealing with innovative techniques for the extraction (e.g., green chemistry) of bioactive compounds were welcomed. In addition, when discussing modern analytical methods, the structural characterization and identification of these active components were required. Attention was also devoted to theoretical aspects of the determination of the bioactivity and mechanisms of action of food bioactive compounds, as well as challenging properties for application as drug agents. Review articles providing an overview of the latest trends in this area of interest were also very welcomed.

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It is our pleasure to present this Special Issue of Molecules entitled “Food Processing and Its Impact on Phenolic and other Bioactive Constituents in Food”. Bioactive compounds including phenolic ingredients have long been used as important constituents of a healthy diet. As a result, consumer awareness about the important role of high-quality products rich in bioactive compounds—especially phenolic compounds—in human nutrition, health, and prevention against diseases has increased. Additionally, methods for food processing, regardless of the technology used, have a huge impact on the quality of the final products. Therefore, the big challenges for scientists lie in the monitoring of changes during food processing and the optimization of technology to achieve the minimal degradation of nutrients (including phenolic compounds). Thus, for this Special Issue, I encourage you to read some interesting papers aimed at bringing the latest scientific news, insights, and advances in the field of food processing and its impact on bioactive constituents in food, especially phenolic compounds. The information presented will certainly arouse considerable interest among a large group of our readers from different disciplines and research fields.

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This Special Issue provides an update on the most recent research and developments in the area of freeze-drying technology in foods. It presents a combination of experimental and modeling studies, offering an overview of oncoming challenges and opportunities on the topic.

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An interdisciplinary book that brings together, at an international level, a high-quality collection of reviews and original research articles dealing with the importance of natural or synthetic polymers in encapsulation processes and their applications. A deep understanding and relevant theoretical calculations for exploring the functions of the materials (involved in the formulations) have also been presented along with fundamental investigations. This book has explored the latest research on the function of polymers in encapsulation technology including fundamental theory and experiments together with reviews and articles. Moreover, the present book offers easy-to-achieve approaches that have been developed so far and could create a platform for industrial material production.

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The **[book “Fundamentals of Computer Programming with C#”][1]** provides thousands of beginner programmers with the practical knowledge and skills necessary to land an entry-level job in the software industry. It teaches the fundamental concepts of programming, data structures and algorithms, and principles for building high-quality software. The book is **free of charge** and available for downloading as **PDF**, **ePub**, **mobi** and other e-formats, accompanies by [video lessons][2] and [presentation slides][3]. Originally written in Bulgarian by a team of seasoned software engineers and translated and edited by over 70 volunteers, the book “Fundamentals of Computer Programming with C#” teaches readers to think like programmers and write programs for **solving practical algorithmic problems**. The book “**Fundamentals of Computer Programming with C#**” covers extensively fundamental programming topics such as data types and variables, operators and expressions, conditional statements, loops, arrays, strings, data structures and algorithms, recursion, object-oriented programming, classes and objects, exceptions handling, lambda expressions and functional programming, as well as high-quality programming code and problem solving methodology. With practical problem-solving tasks at the end of each chapter, slides and video lessons, the book is the **ultimate step-by-step guide to the amazing world of computer programming**, as well as amazing resource for instructors who want to teach programming fundamentals. With more than 700,000 vacant IT jobs in Europe* alone, the ICT industry will need more and more highly qualified individuals to join it. Following this book and its video lessons within 3-4 months, anyone dedicating enough time to the book, videos and the exercises can **master programming**. **After Finishing the Book You Will be Able to:** - Define and use variables and work with primitive data types (such as numbers) - Organize logical statements, conditional statements and loops - Print on the console, use arrays, work with numeral systems, define and use methods - Create and use objects, define own classes and understand object-oriented programming (OOP) - Deeply understand data structures (like balanced trees and hash-tables) - Design efficient algorithms and solve complex programming problems The book teaches the **C# programing language**, a modern object-oriented, general-purpose programming language. Being a simple and easy to learn, it is a natural starting point for beginners and at the same time is widely used in the software industry. Once one masters the basics of programming, they can replace C# with any other programming language. **Why Use “Fundamentals of Computer Programming with C#”?** - In over 1,100 pages, the book covers the never-changing basic principles and concepts in programming - It contains over 350 exercises with varying difficulty - All chapters are accompanied by video lessons, presentation slides and mind maps In the past two years, the first edition of “Fundamentals of Computer Programming with C#” taught over 10,000 people how to code and think as a programmer. The leading author of the book, **[Svetlin Nakov][4]**, an accomplished programming trainer with nearly 20 years of experience in the software industry, used it as the main study resource for the programming fundamentals courses at Telerik Software Academy, a training center in Bulgaria that teaches thousands software developers. **A Quote by Svetlin Nakov** "To create software is not just writing code, it's a **way of thinking**. It's about logically organizing the work into manageable steps, to produce **high-quality software** that always works correctly and is easy to maintain. This book gives you the **algorithmic thinking** approach, vital for anyone involved in the software development, as well as basic programming paradigms like procedural, object-oriented and functional programming. It teaches not just coding. It explains you the fundamental data structures and algorithms with many real-world examples to make you not just developer, but **exceptional developer**". **About the Lead Author** **[Svetlin Nakov][5]** has nearly 20 years of experience as a software engineer, programmer, instructor and consultant, moving from Assembler, Basic and Pascal through C and C++ to PHP, JavaScript, Java and C#. Currently, Svetlin Nakov is the head of the "Technical Training" department at Telerik Corp. where he manages Telerik Academy, an initiative for free training of software engineers. He has achieved a bachelor’s degree in "Computer Science" and a master’s degree in "Distributed Systems and Mobile Technologies" at the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski." Later he obtained a Ph.D. in "Computer Science" after defending a thesis in the field of "Computational Linguistics" before the Higher Attestation Commission of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS). In 2003, Svetlin Nakov received the "John Atanasoff" award by the EVRIKA Foundation. In 2004, he was awarded by the **Bulgarian President** with the "John Atanasoff" award for his contribution to the development of the information technologies and the information society. Svetlin has dozens of scientific and **technical publications** focused on software development in both Bulgarian and foreign publications and is the lead author of the books "**Programming for the .NET Framework (vol. 1 & 2)**", "Introduction to Programming with Java", "Internet Programming with Java" and "Java for Digitally Signing Web Documents" (see [http://nakov.com/books][6]). He is a regular speaker at technical conferences, trainings and seminars and up to now has delivered hundreds of technical lectures at various technological events in Bulgaria and abroad. **Book Reviews** “‘Introduction to Programming with C#’ is a brave effort to not only help the reader make their first steps in programming, but also to introduce them with the programming environment and to train for the **practical tasks** that occur in a programmer’s day-to-day life.” --Vassil Bakalov, software engineer, **Microsoft** “I’m very glad that ‘Introduction to Programming with C#’ takes an entirely different approach. Everything is explained in an **easy to understand manner**, but with the necessary profundity, and every chapter goes on to slowly extend the previous ones. As an outside bystander I was a witness of the efforts put into writing the book and I’m happy that this immense energy and desire to create a more different book truly has materialized in a subject matter of very high quality.” --Vassil Terziev, co-founder and CEO, **Telerik** “This book differs from others mainly because **it will show you what you must know to achieve success** and not what the twists and turns of a given programming language are. If you find the topics covered in this book uninteresting, then software engineering might possibly not be for you.” --Veselin Raychev, software engineer, **Google** “This book will show you the right course of action the easy way – master the basic data structures and algorithms; **learn to think correctly**; and write your code with high-quality.” --Vassil Popovski, software architect, **VMware** “Dear reader, I can boldly state that you are holding a **truly unique book** in your hands. Its contents are very carefully selected. It’s well-arranged and presented with attention to details, of which only people with **tremendous practical experience** and solid scientific knowledge, like the book’s chief authors Svetlin Nakov and Veselin Kolev, are capable of.” --Nikolay Manchev, consultant and software developer, **Oracle** “Today I read this book and I’m happy that finally, although a bit too late for me, someone got down to writing The Book that will help any beginner programmer **solve the puzzle of programming** – a modern programming language, data structures, quality code, algorithmic thinking and problem solving. This is the book that you should take up programming from, if you want to master the art of quality programming. … What matters is that you must learn to think as a programmer and solve the problems you encounter when writing software; the programming language is just a tool you can change for another at any given time.” --Lyubomir Ivanov, Data and Mobile Applications Manager, **Mobiltel** “Fantastic book! It gives the start to any developer geek who wants to develop into a software prodigy. While you can learn from the quick learning books for dummies to do coding that ‘just works’ and this is the level expected in many of the small software development houses around, you can never leave a trace in the software world without understanding the **fundamental concepts of programming**.” --Hristo Radkov, Chief software architect and Co-founder, **Clever IT** For more information about the free C# programming book and video lessons, please visit the book official web site: **[http://introprogramming.info/english-intro-csharp-book/][7]**. [1]: http://www.introprogramming.info/english-intro-csharp-book/ [2]: http://www.introprogramming.info/english-intro-csharp-book/videos/ [3]: http://www.introprogramming.info/english-intro-csharp-book/presentations/ [4]: http://www.nakov.com [5]: http://nakov.com [6]: http://nakov.com/books [7]: http://introprogramming.info/english-intro-csharp-book/

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This Book presents original research articles published in the Special Issue entitled “Green Nanotechnology: The Latest Innovations, Knowledge Gaps, and Future Perspectives”. It proposes pioneering and innovative applications, products, technologies, and processes in several green nanotechnology-related fields (e.g., drug delivery systems, antifouling nanoadditives, and coatings for optical applications), as well as identifying some knowledge gaps on this domain. Research on the sustainable production of nanomaterials based on safe-by-design approaches and (eco)toxicological assessments of novel nanomaterials is also provided. Future perspectives are also highlighted in the Editorial and across the original articles.

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