Sustainable Nanotechnology

Dedication – Professor Viness Pillay (1970–2020)

This book is dedicated to a leading pharmaceutical sciences researcher and academic, Professor Viness Pillay, who passed away peacefully on the morning of 24 July 2020 after a lengthy illness. He was just four days away from his 50th birthday.

A Personal Professor of Pharmaceutics, Prof. Pillay held the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) – National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa Research Chair in “Pharmaceutical Biomaterials and Polymer‐Engineered Drug Delivery Technologies” and also served as the founding director of the Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform (WADDP) Research Unit for more than two decades.

Prof. Pillay spent his career making a substantial contribution to pharmaceutical sciences research. His work transcended in producing several inventions in the design of advanced drug delivery systems, biomaterials, nanomedicines, and de novo tissue engineering and bio‐inks for 3D printing.

He had an outstanding insight and ability to identify important therapeutic challenges and present research results that questioned conventional wisdom. This led him to developing several inventions including the world's fastest dissolving matrix for the onset of rapid drug action in the human body, a neural device for therapeutic intervention in spinal cord injury and novel wound‐healing technologies. He has also pioneered numerous molecular modeling paradigms as a first‐in‐the‐field of pharmaceutics including his very ...