Polysaccharides have attracted considerable attention in a broad range of applications in
recent years, which is due to their remarkable features such as biocompatibility …

Stimuli‐responsive nanoparticles have the potential to improve the delivery of therapeutics
to a specific cell or region within the body. There are many stimuli that have shown potential …

Bionanotechnology has now become firmly established in its own right as one of the
principle and focused subdisciplines within nanotechnology.(1-10) Bionanotechnology can …

Polymers have shown great promise in the design of high efficient and low cytotoxic gene
vectors. Here we synthesize fluorinated dendrimers for use as gene vectors. Fluorinated …

The last decade has witnessed enormous research focused on cationic polymers. Cationic
polymers are the subject of intense research as non-viral gene delivery systems, due to their …

Lung cancer (LC) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are among the
leading causes of mortality worldwide. Cigarette smoking is among the main aetiologic …

Polymers that start degrading under acidic conditions are increasingly investigated as a
pathway to trigger the release of drugs once the drug carrier reached the slightly acidic …

Most of the current microfluidic devices used to fabricate nanoparticles are made of
polydimethylsiloxane (PMDS).[7b, 11a, b, 13] However, PDMS is highly sensitive to organic …

In recent years, biomaterials have gained importance as vehicles and adjuvants in the
formulation of novel cancer vaccines. Among the different biomaterials proposed porous …

Nanoparticles (NPs) are novel drug delivery systems that have been attracting more and
more attention in recent years, and have been used for the treatment of cancer, infection …