Smart or stimuli-responsive materials are an emerging class of materials used for tissue
engineering and drug delivery. A variety of stimuli (including temperature, pH, redox-state …

Over the past 10 years, stimuli-responsive polymeric biomaterials have emerged as effective
systems for the delivery of therapeutics. Persistent with ongoing efforts to minimize adverse …

Smart biomaterials have the ability to respond to changes in physiological parameters and
exogenous stimuli and continue to impact many aspects of modern medicine. Smart …

For years, the field of drug delivery has focused on (1) controlling the release of a
therapeutic and (2) targeting the therapeutic to a specific cell type. These research …

Bio-responsive polymers are the foundation for the construction of the smart systems that
exhibit designed biomedical functions after receiving specific stimuli such as biological …

Stem cell fate is closely intertwined with microenvironmental and endogenous cues within
the body. Recapitulating this dynamic environment ex vivo can be achieved through …

Cells in the body reside within the extracellular matrix (ECM), a three-dimensional
environment that not only provides structural support for the cells, but also influences cellular …

Materials offering the ability to change their characteristics in response to presented stimuli
have demonstrated application in the biomedical arena, allowing control over drug delivery …

Stimuli‐responsive materials are so named because they can alter their physicochemical
properties and/or structural conformations in response to specific stimuli. The stimuli can be …

Synthetic polymers are attracting great attention in the last decades for their use in the
biomedical field as nanovectors for controlled drug delivery, hydrogels and scaffolds …