Targeted delivery combined with controlled drug release has a pivotal role in the future of
personalized medicine. This review covers the principles, advantages, and drawbacks of …

Recent advances in controlled/living polymerization techniques and highly efficient coupling
chemistries have enabled the facile synthesis of complex polymer architectures with …

Thermoresponsive polymers constitute an important class of materials for biomedical
application due to their thermally reversible coil-to-globule transition which can be exploited …

The discovery of the first “living” radical polymerization by Otsu and co-workers (1) in 1982
heralded the start of a very exciting time for polymer chemists. Since then, a plethora of living …

Over the past decade, star polymers have been widely used in biomedical applications such
as drug delivery, gene delivery, tissue engineering, diagnosis, medical devices, and …

Thermally induced gelling systems have gained enormous attention over the last decade.
They consist of hydrophilic homopolymers or block copolymers in water that present a sol at …

Stimuli-responsive amphiphilic block copolymers have emerged as promising nanocarriers
for enhancing site-specific and on-demand drug release in response to a range of stimuli …

Magnetic drug targeting is a drug delivery strategy that can be used to improve the
therapeutic efficiency on tumor cells and reduce the side effects on normal cells and tissues …

To overcome the low water solubility and low bioavailability of curcumin (CUR), multiple
delivery strategies have been proposed. Among these, cyclodextrin-based carriers have …

There has been an exponential increase in research into the development of thermal-and
ultrasound-activated delivery systems for cancer therapy. The majority of researchers …