Colloidal self-assembly approaches to smart nanostructured materials

Z Li, Q Fan, Y Yin - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Colloidal self-assembly refers to a solution-processed assembly of nanometer-/micrometer-
sized, well-dispersed particles into secondary structures, whose collective properties are …

Engineering smart composite hydrogels for wearable disease monitoring

J Li, Q Ding, H Wang, Z Wu, X Gui, C Li, N Hu, K Tao… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2023 - Springer
Growing health awareness triggers the public's concern about health problems. People want
a timely and comprehensive picture of their condition without frequent trips to the hospital for …

Thermoresponsive polymer nanocarriers for biomedical applications

A Bordat, T Boissenot, J Nicolas, N Tsapis - Advanced drug delivery …, 2019 - Elsevier
Polymer nanocarriers allow drug encapsulation leading to fragile molecule protection from
early degradation/metabolization, increased solubility of poorly soluble drugs and improved …

Thermo-responsive polymers: Applications of smart materials in drug delivery and tissue engineering

M Sponchioni, UC Palmiero, D Moscatelli - Materials Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Synthetic polymers are attracting great attention in the last decades for their use in the
biomedical field as nanovectors for controlled drug delivery, hydrogels and scaffolds …

A review of smart electrospun fibers toward textiles

L Liu, W Xu, Y Ding, S Agarwal, A Greiner… - Composites …, 2020 - Elsevier
Electrospinning as a versatile technology has attracted a large amount of attention in the
past few decades due to the facile way to produce micro-and nano-scale fibers featuring …

Thermo-responsive polymers and their application as smart biomaterials

YJ Kim, YT Matsunaga - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The drastic development of polymeric materials for a wide range of biomedical and
biomaterial applications has been explored in the last few decades. Among these materials …

Transformer hydrogels: a review

O Erol, A Pantula, W Liu… - Advanced Materials …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels, which are hydrophilic soft porous networks, are an important class of materials of
broad relevance to bioanalytical chemistry, soft‐robotics, drug delivery, and regenerative …

Switching it Up: The Promise of Stimuli‐Responsive Polymer Systems in Biomedical Science

Y Shymborska, A Budkowski… - The Chemical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Responsive polymer systems have the ability to change properties or behavior in response
to external stimuli. The properties of responsive polymer systems can be fine‐tuned by …

Nanocarriers for skin applications: where do we stand?

N Tiwari, ER Osorio‐Blanco, A Sonzogni… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Skin penetration of active molecules for treatment of diverse diseases is a major field of
research owing to the advantages associated with the skin like easy accessibility, reduced …

Temperature-responsive polymer brush coatings for advanced biomedical applications

S Nastyshyn, Y Stetsyshyn, J Raczkowska, Y Nastishin… - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Modern biomedical technologies predict the application of materials and devices that not
only can comply effectively with specific requirements, but also enable remote control of their …