Recent advances in bioplastics: application and biodegradation

T Narancic, F Cerrone, N Beagan, KE O'Connor - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
The success of oil-based plastics and the continued growth of production and utilisation can
be attributed to their cost, durability, strength to weight ratio, and eight contributions to the …

Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs): An overview of applications for improving the potential of nanotherapeutics

K Desale, K Kuche, S Jain - Biomaterials Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In the field of nanotherapeutics, gaining cellular entry into the cytoplasm of the target cell
continues to be an ultimate challenge. There are many physicochemical factors such as …

Stimulus-responsive degradable polylactide-based block copolymer nanoassemblies for controlled/enhanced drug delivery

KK Bawa, JK Oh - Molecular pharmaceutics, 2017 - ACS Publications
Polylactide (PLA) is biocompatible and FDA-approved for clinical use and thus has been a
choice of the materials valuable for extensive applications in biomedical fields. However …

Development and disassembly of single and multiple acid-cleavable block copolymer nanoassemblies for drug delivery

AM Jazani, JK Oh - Polymer Chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Drug delivery via block copolymer nanoassemblies has been widely viewed as an efficient
way to augment therapeutic efficiency of anticancer drugs for cancer therapy. Acid …

Redox-responsive micelles self-assembled from dynamic covalent block copolymers for intracellular drug delivery

Q Yang, L Tan, C He, B Liu, Y Xu, Z Zhu, Z Shao… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2015 - Elsevier
Redox-responsive micelles self-assembled from dynamic covalent block copolymers with
double disulfide linkage in the backbone have been developed successfully. The …

Organic nanocarriers for delivery and targeting of therapeutic agents for cancer treatment

Y Peng, J Bariwal, V Kumar, C Tan… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nanocarriers have the capability to deliver a variety of drugs to disease sites. Different
biological barriers prevent the successful delivery of nanoformulations to target sites …

Polyphosphoester-camptothecin prodrug with reduction-response prepared via michael addition polymerization and click reaction

X Du, Y Sun, M Zhang, J He, P Ni - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Polyphosphoesters (PPEs), as potential candidates for biocompatible and biodegradable
polymers, play an important role in material science. Various synthetic methods have been …

Construction of biocompatible bilayered light‐driven actuator composed of rGO/PNIPAM and PEGDA hydrogel

L Yang, T Zhang, W Sun - Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
To construct an actuator with biocompatibility and potential use in biomedicine field, a light‐
driven actuator composed of reduced graphene oxide (rGO)/poly (N‐isopropyl …

A carrier-free nanoparticle with dual NIR/acid responsiveness by co-assembly of enediyne and IR820 for combined PTT/chemotherapy

H Lu, W Wang, X Li, M Zhang, X Cheng… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Combined photothermal therapy/chemotherapy by co-delivery of a photosensitizer (PS) and
a chemotherapeutic drug has demonstrated great potential for cancer treatment. The …

pH-responsive triblock copolymeric micelles decorated with a cell-penetrating peptide provide efficient doxorubicin delivery

KE Ng, MCIM Amin, H Katas, MW Amjad… - Nanoscale research …, 2016 - Springer
This study developed novel triblock pH-responsive polymeric micelles (PMs) using cholic
acid-polyethyleneimine-poly-l-arginine (CA-PEI-pArg) copolymers. PEI provided pH …