Stimuli responsive polymers can provide a variety of applications for the biomedical fields.
The interest in these polymers has exponentially increased due to their promising potential …

Polymers that can respond to external stimuli are of great interest in medicine, especially as
controlled drug release vehicles. In this critical review, we consider the types of stimulus …

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 …

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

Controlled drug delivery is useful because it allows to obtain better drug product
effectiveness, reliability and safety. Interest in stimuli-responsive polymers is steadily gaining …

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 …

Interest in stimuli-responsive polymers has persisted over many decades, and a great deal
of work has been dedicated to developing environmentally sensitive macromolecules that …

This review describes some commercially available stimuli-responsive polymers of natural
and synthetic origin, and their applications in drug delivery and textiles. The polymers of …

Over the past 25years many interesting biomedical uses have been proposed for stimuli-
responsive polymers, including uses in diagnostics, drug delivery, tissue engineering …

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 …