Functional polymeric nanocarriers with controlled size, morphology, and precise placement of functional groups have attracted significant attention, and various methodologies enabling their synthesis have recently emerged. Such nanomaterials are finding significant and diverse applications as drug/gene carriers and/or as contrast agents for imaging.

This Special Issue will be an international forum for researchers to discuss the most recent techniques for the preparation of these polymeric nanocarriers using the latest macromolecular engineering tools (such as click chemistry, self-assembled macromolecules, and polymer synthesis) to yield well-defined functional nanocarriers with potential applications in the field of drug delivery and imaging.

The present special issue intends to solicit high quality, unpublished manuscripts reporting original work in the synthesis of these nanoobjects, as well as their applications in the design of new treatments.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Nanomaterial for tissue engineering, clinical diagnosis, and biomedical dressing
• Nanomedicine
• Sustained, delayed-release, controlled, or modified-release drug delivery
• Poorly soluble drug and improved drug bioavailability
• Biopharmaceutical, physiological, and clinical considerations for nanotechnology in Drug delivery
• New oral, transmucoadhesive and buccal drug delivery
• Targeting anticancer drug delivery
• New ocular, nasal, pulmonary, and transdermal patch drug delivery
• Drug targeting and nanomedicines
• Nanocarriers in medicine: challenges, dogmas, and new horizons