**Meet the editor**

Prof. Claudia Maria Simonescu, PhD, is working as a full-time professor at the Department of Analytical Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. She received her PhD degree in Chemistry and completed one postdoctoral research training in Industrial Biotechnology. Her

research and teaching activities are in the fields of materials science and environmental engineering. The research activities resulted in the development of nine books, two laboratory works, and a chapter published at the *International Publishing House*. She is also an author of 70 ISI-ranked journals and 21 articles published in proceedings of international scientific conferences with 267 citations (Web of Science). Dr. Claudia Maria Simonescu is a member of international professional bodies and a member of editorial board of international scientific journals. She was also selected as a reviewer for 35 international journals and for research project competitions launched by the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI) from Romania, and as a reviewer for the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT) of the Ministry of Chile and *National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development* (FONDECYT) regular competition.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Claudia Maria Simonescu

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Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Dendrimers as Nanoengineered Materials and Their Applications 1**

Chapter 2 **Dendrimers as Drug Nanocarriers: The Future of Gene Therapy**

Chapter 3 **Lysine Dendrimers and Their Complexes with Therapeutic and Amyloid Peptides: Computer Simulation 29**

Chapter 4 **Radiolabeled Dendrimers as Potential PET Agents for Molecular**

Chapter 6 **Self-healing of Structural Composites Containing Dendrimers**

Vassilis Kostopoulos and Athanasios Kotrotsos

Ida Franiak-Pietryga, Barbara Ziemba, Bradley Messmer and Dorota

Elena Popova, Dilorom Khamidova, Igor Neelov and Faizali Komilov

Anchal Ghai, Natasha Singh, Shalini Chopra and Baljinder Singh

**Section 1 Concepts in Dendrimer-based Nanomedicine 5**

**and Targeted Therapies in Cancer 7**

**Imaging of Tumor Angiogenesis 47**

**Section 2 Dendrimers as Functional Materials 65**

Chapter 5 **Azodendrimers as a Functional Material 67** Hideo Takezoe and Osamu Haba

**Section 3 Dendrimers in Self-healing Technology 99**

**as Healing Agent 101**
