Functional microgels: recent advances in their biomedical applications

G Agrawal, R Agrawal - Small, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Here, a spotlight is shown on aqueous microgel particles which exhibit a great potential for
various biomedical applications such as drug delivery, cell imaging, and tissue engineering …

Poly (N-isopropylacrylamide) Microgel-Based Optical Devices for Sensing and Biosensing

MR Islam, A Ahiabu, X Li, MJ Serpe - Sensors, 2014 - mdpi.com
Responsive polymer-based materials have found numerous applications due to their ease
of synthesis and the variety of stimuli that they can be made responsive to. In this review, we …

Hydrogel interferometry for ultrasensitive and highly selective chemical detection

M Sun, R Bai, X Yang, J Song, M Qin, Z Suo… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Developing ultrasensitive chemical sensors with small scale and fast response through
simple design and low‐cost fabrication is highly desired but still challenging. Herein, a …

Soybean lecithin‐mediated nanoporous PLGA microspheres with highly entrapped and controlled released BMP‐2 as a stem cell platform

D Wei, R Qiao, J Dao, J Su, C Jiang, X Wang, M Gao… - Small, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Injectable polymer microsphere‐based stem cell delivery systems have a severe problem
that they do not offer a desirable environment for stem cell adhesion, proliferation, and …

Thermoresponsive-polymer-based materials for temperature-modulated bioanalysis and bioseparations

K Nagase, T Okano - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Many bioactive compounds, pharmaceutical proteins, and therapeutic cells are used in
medical treatments. Methods for the effective purification of such compounds that retain their …

Biomolecules turn self-assembling amphiphilic block co-polymer platforms into biomimetic interfaces

S Yorulmaz Avsar, M Kyropoulou, S Di Leone… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Biological membranes constitute an interface between cells and their surroundings and form
distinct compartments within the cell. They also host a variety of biomolecules that carry out …

Thermoresponsive shape‐memory hydrogel actuators made by phototriggered click chemistry

B Maiti, A Abramov, L Franco, J Puiggalí… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This article describes the design and synthesis of a new series of hydrogel membranes
composed of trialkyne derivatives of glycerol ethoxylate and bisphenol A diazide (BA …

Synthesis of polymeric nano/microgels: a review

YB Hamzah, S Hashim, WAWA Rahman - Journal of Polymer Research, 2017 - Springer
Nanogels have become an important topic of interdisciplinary research, especially in the
fields of polymer chemistry, physics, materials science, pharmacy, and medicine where their …

Thermoresponsive block copolymer brush for temperature-modulated hepatocyte separation

K Nagase, N Kojima, M Goto, T Akaike… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Hepatic tissue engineering may be an effective approach for the treatment of liver disease;
however, its practical application requires hepatic cell separation technologies that do not …

Understanding the contribution of surface roughness and hydrophobic modification of silica nanoparticles to enhanced therapeutic protein delivery

Y Niu, M Yu, A Meka, Y Liu, J Zhang… - Journal of Materials …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Intracellular protein delivery holds great promise for cancer therapy. In this work, the
individual and combined contribution of the surface roughness and hydrophobic …