Improving the safety efficacy ratio of existing drugs is a current challenge to be addressed
rather than the development of novel drugs which involve much expense and time. The …

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 …

Over the past century, hydrogels have emerged as effective materials for an immense variety
of applications. The unique network structure of hydrogels enables very high levels of …

DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201503724 high strength of 2 MPa, high fracture energy of 9300 J m−
2, high extensibility of 800%, excellent fatigue-resistance, and great elasticity allowing for …

This section provides definitions of networks and hydrogels terms and describes the
chemical preparation of hydrogels. A number of physicochemical methods of …

Microgels/nanogels are crosslinked polymeric particles, which can be considered as
hydrogels if they are composed of water soluble/swellable polymer chains. They possess …

A typical description of interpenetrating polymer networks (IPN) can be surprisingly simple,
systems that consist of two crosslinked polymer networks that are physically entangled but …

Polysaccharide-based microgels/nanogels have high water content, functionality,
biocompatibility, tunable size from submicrons to tens of nanometers, large surface area for …

Recent advances in the development and biological applications of polymeric
nanomaterials embedded with superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SIONPs) are …

A novel slow released NPK fertilizer encapsulated by superabsorbent nanocomposite was
prepared via in-situ free radical polymerization of sodium alginate, acrylic acid, acrylamide …