Stealth coating of nanoparticles in drug-delivery systems

SY Fam, CF Chee, CY Yong, KL Ho… - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Nanoparticles (NPs) have emerged as a powerful drug-delivery tool for cancer therapies to
enhance the specificity of drug actions, while reducing the systemic side effects …

Polysaccharide based nanogels in the drug delivery system: Application as the carrier of pharmaceutical agents

TA Debele, SL Mekuria, HC Tsai - Materials Science and Engineering: C, 2016 - Elsevier
Polysaccharide-based nanoparticles have fascinated attention as a vesicle of different
pharmaceutical agents due to their unique multi-functional groups in addition to their …

Carbohydrate nanocarriers in biomedical applications: functionalization and construction

B Kang, T Opatz, K Landfester, FR Wurm - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The specific targeting of either tumor cells or immune cells in vivo by carefully designed and
appropriately surface-functionalized nanocarriers may become an effective therapeutic …

Surface molecular property modifications for poly (dimethylsiloxane)(PDMS) based microfluidic devices

I Wong, CM Ho - Microfluidics and nanofluidics, 2009 - Springer
Fast advancements of microfabrication processes in past two decades have reached to a
fairly matured stage that we can manufacture a wide range of microfluidic devices. At …

Parameters influencing the stealthiness of colloidal drug delivery systems

A Vonarbourg, C Passirani, P Saulnier, JP Benoit - Biomaterials, 2006 - Elsevier
Over the last few decades, colloidal drug delivery systems (CDDS) such as nano-structures
have been developed in order to improve the efficiency and the specificity of drug action …

Complementary analysis of the hard and soft protein corona: sample preparation critically effects corona composition

S Winzen, S Schoettler, G Baier, C Rosenauer… - Nanoscale, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Here we demonstrate how a complementary analysis of nanocapsule–protein interactions
with and without application media allows gaining insights into the so called hard and soft …

Block copolymer micelles for delivery of gene and related compounds

Y Kakizawa, K Kataoka - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2002 - Elsevier
Block copolymers composed of a cationic segment and a hydrophilic segment
spontaneously associate with polyanionic DNA to form block copolymer micelles. The …

Effects of cloud-point grafting, chain length, and density of PEG layers on competitive adsorption of ocular proteins

P Kingshott, H Thissen, HJ Griesser - Biomaterials, 2002 - Elsevier
The effects of pinning density, chain length, and 'cloud point'(CP) versus non-CP grafting
conditions have been studied on the ability of polyethylene glycol (PEG) layers to minimize …

Teeth and bones: applications of surface science to dental materials and related biomaterials

FH Jones - Surface science reports, 2001 - Elsevier
Recent years have seen a considerable upsurge in publications concerning the surface
structure and chemistry of materials with biological or biomedical applications. Within the …

Biomedical applications of electrostatic layer-by-layer nano-assembly of polymers, enzymes, and nanoparticles

H Ai, SA Jones, YM Lvov - Cell biochemistry and biophysics, 2003 - Springer
The introduction of electrostatic layer-by-layer (LbL) self-assembly has shown broad
biomedical applications in thin film coating, micropatterning, nanobioreactors, artificial cells …