Advanced materials and processing for drug delivery: the past and the future

Y Zhang, HF Chan, KW Leong - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
Design and synthesis of efficient drug delivery systems are of vital importance for medicine
and healthcare. Materials innovation and nanotechnology have synergistically fueled the …

Multiphase flow microfluidics for the production of single or multiple emulsions for drug delivery

CX Zhao - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
Considerable effort has been directed towards developing novel drug delivery systems.
Microfluidics, capable of generating monodisperse single and multiple emulsion droplets …

Designing responsive microgels for drug delivery applications

NMB Smeets, T Hoare - Journal of Polymer Science Part A …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Microgels based on thermally responsive polymers have been widely investigated in the
context of controlled release applications, with increasing recent interest on developing a …

Polymer microcapsules with programmable active release

A Abbaspourrad, NJ Carroll, SH Kim… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We present a new type of microcapsule programmed with a tunable active release
mechanism. The capsules are triggered by a plasticizing stimulus that induces a phase …

From tubes to drops: droplet-based microfluidics for ultrahigh-throughput biology

TM Tran, F Lan, CS Thompson… - Journal of Physics D …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Droplet-based microfluidics holds enormous potential for transforming the way that many
biological screens are performed by affording unprecedented increases in screening …

Microgel capsules tailored by droplet‐based microfluidics

S Seiffert - ChemPhysChem, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Microgel capsules are micrometer‐sized particles that consist of a cross‐linked, solvent‐
swollen polymer network complexed with additives. These particles have various …

Micromechanics of temperature sensitive microgels: dip in the Poisson ratio near the LCST

P Voudouris, D Florea, P van der Schoot, HM Wyss - Soft Matter, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Microgels of poly-N-isopropylacrylamide (pNIPAM) exhibit a remarkable sensitivity to
environmental conditions, most strikingly a pronounced deswelling that occurs close to the …

[PDF][PDF] Surface functionalized hydrophobic porous particles toward water treatment application

A Abbaspourrad, NJ Carroll, SH Kim… - Advanced …, 2013 - weitzlab.seas.harvard.edu
Porous particles are attractive for applications in drug delivery,[1–3] sensing,[4–6] and
absorption of organic pollutants.[7, 8] The removal of organic pollutants from undesirable …

Synthesis of biomimetic oxygen-carrying compartmentalized microparticles using flow lithography

HZ An, ER Safai, HB Eral, PS Doyle - Lab on a Chip, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
We report a microfluidic approach for lithographically photo-patterning compartmentalized
microparticles with any 2D-extruded shape, down to the cellular length scale (~ 10 microns) …

Near-infrared photothermal activation of microgels incorporating polypyrrole nanotransducers through droplet microfluidics

RC Luo, S Ranjan, Y Zhang, CH Chen - Chemical Communications, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)(pNIPAM) composite microgels incorporating polypyrrole (PPy)
nanoparticles were produced using droplet microfluidics. The composite microgels exhibited …