Recent progress in nanostructured smart drug delivery systems for cancer therapy: a review

MI Khan, MI Hossain, MK Hossain… - ACS Applied Bio …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Traditional treatment approaches for cancer involve intravenous chemotherapy or other
forms of drug delivery. These therapeutic measures suffer from several limitations such as …

Self-assembly of block copolymers

Y Mai, A Eisenberg - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Block copolymer (BCP) self-assembly has attracted considerable attention for many
decades because it can yield ordered structures in a wide range of morphologies, including …

LCST polymers: Thermoresponsive nanostructured assemblies towards bioapplications

G Pasparakis, C Tsitsilianis - Polymer, 2020 - Elsevier
Thermoresponsive polymers constitute an important class of materials for biomedical
application due to their thermally reversible coil-to-globule transition which can be exploited …

Stimuli-responsive polymersomes for biomedical applications

X Hu, Y Zhang, Z Xie, X Jing, A Bellotti, Z Gu - Biomacromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
Polymersomes, the structural analogues of liposomes, are hollow structures enclosed by a
bilayer membrane made from amphiphilic copolymers. Polymersomes have been proposed …

Expanding the scope of RAFT polymerization: recent advances and new horizons

MR Hill, RN Carmean, BS Sumerlin - Macromolecules, 2015 - ACS Publications
Reversible deactivation radical polymerization (RDRP) has revolutionized modern polymer
chemistry over the past two decades, thus laying the groundwork for the synthesis of …

Design and preparation of porous polymers

D Wu, F Xu, B Sun, R Fu, H He… - Chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Porosity can be viewed as a profound concept that helps us to understand nature and create
advanced structures. There are some interesting examples in nature, such as hollow …

Stimuli-responsive polymeric nanocarriers for the controlled transport of active compounds: concepts and applications

E Fleige, MA Quadir, R Haag - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
The use of polymeric nanocarriers to transport active compounds like small-molecular drugs,
peptides, or genes found an increased attention throughout the different fields of natural …

[HTML][HTML] Thermoresponsive polymers for biomedical applications

MA Ward, TK Georgiou - Polymers, 2011 - mdpi.com
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 …

Polymer vesicles: Mechanism, preparation, application, and responsive behavior

Y Zhu, B Yang, S Chen, J Du - Progress in Polymer Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Polymer vesicles, also known as polymersomes, are finding increasing applications in
biomedical field, including drug delivery, gene therapy, magnetic resonance imaging …

Polymersomes for drug delivery: design, formation and characterization

JS Lee, J Feijen - Journal of controlled release, 2012 - Elsevier
In the last past dozen years, polymersomes (Ps) have attracted tremendous attention as
versatile carriers because of their colloidal stability, tunable membrane properties and ability …