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Min-Jun Baek¹, Won Hur¹, Satoshi Kashiwagi¹

¹Gordon Center for Medical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, United States.

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Physicochemical properties of nanoparticles (NPs) critically influence their biodistribution and targetability for medical applications. Optimizing these properties is key to overcoming challenges in nanomedicine and achieving enhanced organ selectivity for improved diagnostics and drug delivery.

Keywords:

Artificial intelligence Biodistribution Clinical applications Excretion High-throughput screening Machine learning Nanoparticles Physicochemical properties

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Area of Science:

Nanomedicine
Materials Science
Biomedical Engineering

Background:

Nanoparticles (NPs) show promise for targeted diagnostic imaging and drug delivery.
Clinical translation of NPs is limited due to poor organ/tissue specificity and clearance issues.
Off-target accumulation hinders the efficacy of nanomedicines.

Purpose of the Study:

To examine the role of NP physicochemical properties in biodistribution, targetability, and clearance.
To highlight advancements and challenges in engineering NPs for nanomedicine.
To propose design considerations for next-generation nanomedicines with enhanced organ selectivity.

Main Methods:

Review of physicochemical properties: size, surface charge, shape, elasticity, hardness, and density.
Analysis of recent advancements in NP engineering for targeted applications.
Discussion of emerging tools and technologies in nanomedicine.

Main Results:

Physicochemical properties significantly govern NP biodistribution and targetability.
Current NP designs face challenges in achieving precise organ-specific targeting.
Progress has been made, but significant hurdles remain in nanomedicine development.

Conclusions:

Optimizing NP physicochemical properties is crucial for enhanced organ selectivity.
Next-generation nanomedicines require integrated design considerations from multiple scientific disciplines.
Addressing off-target accumulation and clearance is vital for successful clinical translation of nanomedicines.