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 …

L iving systems respond to external stimuli adapting themselves to changing conditions.
Polymer scientists have been trying to mimic this behaviour for the last twenty years creating …

Thermoresponsive polymers are a class of “smart” materials that have the ability to respond
to a change in temperature; a property that makes them useful materials in a wide range of …

A wide variety of smart polymer systems such as thermosensitive polymers (TSPs) have
been developed and applied mimicking nature. TSPs are a class of macromolecules that …

The drastic development of polymeric materials for a wide range of biomedical and
biomaterial applications has been explored in the last few decades. Among these materials …

In the last couple of decades several drug carriers have been tailored on the nanometric
scale by taking advantage of new stimuli responsive materials. Thermoresponsive polymers …

Stimuli-responsive polymers possess the unique property of responding to changes in their
microenvironment. Use of thermo-responsive polymers for fabrication of a variety of …

The focus of this review is on the class of transiently thermoresponsive polymers. These
polymers are thermoresponsive, but gradually lose this property upon chemical …

Targeted and controlled drug delivery employing “smart materials” is a widely investigated
field, within which stimuli-responsive polymers, particularly those which are thermo …

The present review aims to highlight the applications of thermoresponsive polymers. Thermo-
responsive polymers show a sharp change in properties upon a small or modest change in …